USS Constitution Cross Section
POST WAR -scratch
POST WAR -Large
scale: 1:93 L:3" H:29" W:12"
US $1,200.00
Scale:1:48 L:7"
H:63" W:30"
US $650.00
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The USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. Built by the famous US shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys, she was designed larger and stronger than the standard Frigates. She slid from the ways at the shipyard of Edmund Hart in Boston on October 21, 1797. She measured 204 ft., bow to stern, and had a complement of 400 to 450 aboard.
In the Barbary Wars, the Constitution first saw action as the US Navy flagship in the attack on Tripoli on August 3, 1804. During the War of 1812, she scored stunning victories over British opponents. It was then that she became a naval living legend; a battleship able to deal out and take the heaviest blows. She was nicknamed "Old Ironsides" by a soldier, after seeing a shot from HMS Guerriere bounce off her hull. At present, she is berthed in Charlestown, Massachusetts at the Boston National Historical Park.
The USS Constitution
is available in four full-ship versions. A related ship model, the
Frigate
Gun Station is a depiction of what the armory looks like inside
the USS Constitution.
