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The Constitution was one of the US Navys 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 thw world, she is berthed in Boston Harbor. The Anatomy of the Ship series aims to provide the finest documentation of individual ships and ship types ever published. What makes the series unique is a complete set of superbly executed line drawings, both the conventional type of plan as well as explanatory views, with fully descriptive keys. These are supported by technical details and a record of the ships service history.

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Author

KARL HEINZ MARQUARDT

Publisher

Conway Maritime Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781591142508

Category

hobbies

Subjects

Military, Engineering, Technology

Rating

4.8 / 5 (135 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14