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USS Constitution (“Old Ironsides”), Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, October 19, 2023
The oldest warship in active service in the US Navy and the oldest warship afloat in the world, the USS Constitution was commissioned in 1797 as one of six square-rigged 44-gun frigates in the original order of capital ships for the US Navy. It is popularly believed that this storied vessel fought in the American Revolutionary War, but the colonies had no navy during that conflict. Rather the ship was ordered and built to protect American merchant vessels during the quasi-war with France and to fend off the Barbary pirates along the north coast of Africa who were exacting tribute from American vessels in exchange for safe passage in the Mediterranean. During the War of 1812, this sturdy man-of-war captured five British ships and earned its nickname, “Old Ironsides,” when enemy cannon balls bounced off her sturdy live-oak sides. Constitution sailed as the flagship of the US Navy Mediterranean and African squadrons well into the mid-nineteenth century. Today, active-duty US Navy officers and enlisted personnel in period uniforms give tours of Constitution and maintain this historic vessel. This bow-on view of gunports, hawse pipes, and ornate paint work was taken with a Sony RX-10 IV digital camera.
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