may be the oldest commissioned warship in the world nevertheless afloat. Nicknamed “Aged Ironsides,” she's right now berthed in Boston and is referred to as “The usa’s Ship of Condition.” Her story illuminates A lot about the U.S. Navy during the nation’s very first a hundred yrs.off Brazil on December 29. A British shot wrecked her hel… Read More

But a person thirty day period later, she satisfied with one of them yet again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the primary shot on the famous struggle; twenty minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly damaged that she wasn't worthy of towing to port.The earliest identified photograph of Constitution, undergoin… Read More