The 44-gun Frigate Uss Constitution 'old Ironsides' (anatomy Of The Ship)
by Karl Heinz Marquardt /
2005 / English / PDF
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The Constitution was one of the US Navy's first six original frigates, ordered as a counter to the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean. Fast and heavily built, she was nominally rated as a 44 but mounted thirty 24-pdr and twenty-two 12-pdr cannon. Her most famous encounter, after which she became nicknamed 'Old Ironsides' due to British shot being seen bouncing off her hull, involved HMS Guerriere, which she smashed the same treatment was meted out to HMS Java four months later.
Now the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, she is berthed in Boston Harbor.
