Eventually, the government saw its worth and paid hefty sums to rebuild the ship to its 1812 configuration, which is how Old Ironsides exists today. While she currently operates as a museum ship ...

Just weeks later, on August 2, the future Old Ironsides set sail for Halifax. It engaged the Guerriere about 600 miles east of Boston in the open Atlantic Ocean. The ship was ordered on March 1 ...

Join us as we explore the history of the USS Constitution - the oldest naval ship still afloat and commissioned in the US (and the world). "Old Ironsides," harbored in Charlestown Navy Yard in ...

"The ship sailed its first cruise [in 1798] as the ... and was about to be scrapped when Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem Old Ironsides helped to save her," writes the National Museum of the U.S ...

relative to the plan of refitting the historic old craft Constitution as a naval training ship. The Massachusetts State Society of the Daughters of 1812 propose to pay for the refitting through ...

The ship earned the nickname of Old Ironsides during the War of 1812 when British cannonballs were seen bouncing off the ship’s wooden hull. The active-duty Sailors stationed aboard the USS ...

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Patriots celebrating Independence Day with a visit to the historic warship known as “Old Ironsides” will be ... and the second woman ever to lead the ship, which played critical roles in ...