OLD IRONSIDE - AN OVERVIEW

But one particular month later on, she satisfied with one of them yet again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the initial shot in the famous struggle; twenty minutes later, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly ruined that she wasn't really worth towing to port.The earliest regarded photograph of Constitution, going through rep

As early as 1991, Commander David Cashman had prompt that Constitution need to sail to rejoice her 200th anniversary in 1997 rather then getting towed. The proposal was accepted, though it was regarded as a considerable undertaking since she experienced not sailed in around one hundred decades.Since the development from the US Naval Academy in 184