USS Constitution

Timeline

October 21, 1797: USS Constitution launched and christened at Edmond Hartt's Shipyard, Boston.

August 1798: Ordered into action in the Quasi-War with France.

1803–1806: Flagship, Mediterranean Squadron, Tripolitan War[?].

1812–1815: War with Great Britain.

August 18, 1812: Defeats 49-gun British frigate Guerriere[?]. Crew bestows her with "Old Ironsides" nickname.

December 29, 1812: Captures British frigate Java and five smaller vessels.

1828-1830 Laid up at Boston and condemned by naval commissioners, she was saved by a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

March 1844: Begins 30-month voyage around the world.

1931-1934: National cruise takes "Old Ironsides" to 90 American cities, returns to her place of honor in Boston harbor.

March 1996-1997 Completes 44-month restoration.

General Characteristics

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• Builders: Col. George Claghorn, Edmond Harrt's Shipyard, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Unit Cost: $302,718 (1797 dollars)
• Power Plant: 42,710 square feet of sail on three masts
• Length: 204 feet (62.16 meters) (billet head to taffrail); 175 feet at waterline (53.32 meters)
• Beam: 43.5 feet (13.25 meters)
• Mast height: foremast, 198 feet (60.33 meters); mainmast, 220 feet (67.03 meters); mizzenmast, 172.5 feet (52.56 meters)
• Displacement: 2,200 tons
• Speed: 13+ knots
• Crew: 450 including 55 Marines and 30 boys
• Armament: 32 24-pounder long guns; 20 32-pounder carronades; and, two 24-pounder bow chasers
• Boats: one 36-foot long boat; two 30-foot cutters, two 28-foot whaleboats; one 28-foot gig; one 22-foot jolly boat; and one 14-foot punt
• Anchors: two main bowers (5300 lbs.); one sheet anchor (5400 lbs.); one stream anchor (1100 lbs.); and two kedge anchors (400 to 700 lbs)
• Date Deployed: October 21, 1797

References

• Thomas P. Horgan[?], Old Ironsides (Burdette & Co., 1963)
• Tyrone G. Martin, A Most Fortunate Ship (Globe Pequot Press, 1980)

External link

• USS Constitution homepage (http://www.ussconstitution.navy.mil)

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The keel of a Lexington-class battle cruiser, to have been named USS Constitution (CC-5), was laid at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in September 1920, but the class was cancelled in 1923 by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.

General Characteristics (1919 design)

• Displacement: 43,500 tons
• Length: 874 feet
• Beam: 105.5 feet
• Draft: 31 feet
• Primary Armament: eight 16-inch/50 guns in four twin turrets
• Secondary Armament: 16 six-inch/53 guns in single mounts (eight per side), four three-inch guns, eight 21-inch torpedo
• Machinery, 180,000 shp General Electric geared turbines with electric drive, 4 screws
• Speed, 35 Knots
• Complement 1500 officers and men

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