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The historic USS Constitution took another sail around the Boston Harbor in honor of the ship’s 227th birthday Monday. The USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned naval warship afloat in the ...
The USS Constitution once again set sail across Boston Harbor on Thursday in honor of Independence Day. The world’s oldest commissioned warship still afloat fired salutes and hosted members of ...
BOSTON (WSAW) - The United States Navy has announced that Medford native, Commander Crystal Schaefer, will be the USS Constitution’s 78th commanding officer and will take command of ‘Old ...
BOSTON (WHDH) - Navy sailors on the USS Constitution fired off a 21-gun salute Monday in a Memorial Day ceremony in honor of the service members who died serving aboard the ship. The crew fired ...
The USS Constitution is a triple-masted wooden heavy frigate, and it's the oldest commissioned warship still afloat. The ship first launched in 1797 as the first of six frigates commissioned for ...
Beginning in the 1990s, those trees were put to use as a source of wood for the USS Constitution ... as a source of wood for the Constitution once they are large enough. Steele said for a tree ...
Shortly after the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Navy was founded. At about the same time, the construction of naval ships commenced, including the USS Constitution, which still ...
Maybe a couple of decades, but the results are great. Joseph began working on a model of the USS Constitution when he was 15, and he worked on it for several years. He completed it when he was 79.
The first USS Iowa battleship ... of the effort to keep Constitution afloat. By 1924, it had again fallen into disrepair and was in danger of being lost to rot. A large public campaign was ...
Cmdr. Billie Farrell on Friday became the first female to captain the USS Constitution in the historic warship’s 224-year history. Farrell assumed duties as the 77th commanding officer of Old ...
Cmdr. Billie Farrell on Friday became the first female to captain the USS Constitution in the historic warship’s 224-year history. Farrell assumed duties as the 77th commanding officer of Old ...