Where does a 225-year-old working warship get its parts? At the Navy forest, of course
Michael Venutolo-Mantovani 9 hrs ago
In the early 1970s, as the United States began preparing for its Bicentennial, Boston decided that the U.S.S. Constitution would be a focal point of the city’s anniversary celebrations, with a new museum to the celebrated warship opening at the Charlestown Navy Yard.
U.S. Navy sailor Jason Santamaria secures a line as the U.S.S. Constitution pulls into dock following a cruise in Boston Harbor in May 2022. The vessel, named by George Washington and built with copper bolts forged by Paul Revere, is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat anywhere on Earth.© Provided by National Geographic U.S. Navy sailor Jason Santamaria secures a line as the U.S.S. Constitution pulls into dock following a cruise in Boston Harbor in May 2022. The vessel, named by George Washington and built with copper bolts forged by Paul Revere, is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat anywhere on Earth.
The three-masted heavy frigate, launched in 1797, was named by George Washington and built with copper bolts forged by Paul Revere. Black-sided and red-bottomed, with a single, stark white running stripe, Constitution protected American ships against the French in the undeclared Quasi-War of 1798-1800 and quelled pirate attacks in the Mediterranean during the First Barbary War. The armed vessel defeated five British warships in the War of 1812, and it was in the wake of one of those battles—in which the American crew watched enemy cannonballs bounce harmlessly off Constitution’s white-oak hull—that the warship earned its famous nickname: “Old Ironsides.”
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