OLD IRONSIDE - AN OVERVIEW

But one particular month later, she fulfilled with one of these yet again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the very first shot of the legendary struggle; 20 minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so badly ruined that she wasn't worth towing to port.The earliest identified photograph of Structure, going through repairs i

As early as 1991, Commander David Cashman experienced instructed that Constitution must sail to rejoice her 200th anniversary in 1997 as opposed to being towed. The proposal was approved, though it had been thought to be a big enterprise considering the fact that she had not sailed in in excess of 100 yrs.As Structure settled in all over again at