USS Constitution

USS Constitution under sail in Boston Harbor, Aug 24, 2007. As viewed from Spectacle Island, Logan International in background. Various noises from jets, tourists, wind, surf. The loud buzzing is from insects.

Last sail this season is on Aug 31st, then not again until the summer of 2010 due to maintenance demands, she will however be open for her regular tours at the Charlestown Shipyard.

"USS Constitution will be sailing under her own power into Boston Harbor (Aug 31st). She will take a cruise out to Deer Island and on the return trip will do a 21-gun salute when she passes Castle Island in South Boston. USS Constitution will leave port at 10am and should return around 1pm."


http://www.ussconstitution.navy.mil/

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• Boston
• Massachusetts
• OldIronsides
• Constitution
• Spectacle

[fushheads]

Thumbs up if you want to see the Constitution fire a full broadside on the Tricentennial of the Navy.

[svenbeck0360]

@tonyoffpompey Actually she is planned to set sail this year on June 3rd

[JamesPolymer]

@looneyflight

The main issue issue is her age; remember, the Constitution is over 200 years old, and maintaining her becomes more difficult with every strain on her timbers. (Since 9/11 I would think security is also a major concern.) The ship also has to pull daily shifts as a public exhibit moored near the USS Constitution Museum in the Charlestown Navy Yard.

[looneyflight]

does anyone know why they never put all the sails up? why they rarely ever sail it under it own power? and why has it never moved under its own power faster than 6 kts in over 100 years?

[elskeeper]

She sure is a beauty.

[xboxboy78]

My grandpa was a captain of the ship after she was decommissioned knud c. Rip grampa :(

[BonesLover247]

I have to say is she is one beautiful ship, not to mention she's 214 years old (and still afloat to this day)

[BonesLover247]

@maureenOWW well that's what the USS Constitution was designed for too, and as you can tell, she did pretty well, given the fact what she's still afloat 214 years later. Also if someone wishes to compare the two they can, clearly you are, that last sentence is a major comparison I'd have to say, as is your little reference to the guns.

[USMarineRifleman0311]

she's being boarded!!! man the sides and prepare to repel boarders!!

[bfs1888]

after reading some of below, now i don't give a shit. You two are just plain assholes. I'm sure there is one answer. Just find it, and start acting your ages

[pathman2010]

@irishoforiel I'm sure this has been responded to, but Constitution never took on or captured a ship of the line, let alone two. I'm as big a patriot and fan of Ironsides as anyone, but no naval commander in their right mind would take a frigate of that era against a ship of the line--the frigate would be annihilated. She beat a couple fifth-rate frigates, but those weren't considered ships of the line. She was built to beat ships of similar size, and to run from those that outgunned her.

[RetroVideoFan]

@tonyoffpompey Yes, in fact, the oldest floating commisioned naval vessel in the world.