Fun fact about th USS Constitution, the US Navy maintains an entire white oak forest in Indiana just to use in the maintenance of this one ship.
That actually is a very fun fact.
It’s also a trained forest, essentially using bonsai style techniques to form specific branch points and curves that are needed for specific timbers.
Pfft that’s nothing. HMAS Melbourne was the only Australian ship to sink two friendly ships in peacetime 💪
She was just that eager to spill blood.
Metal as fuck
It’s cooler in Fallout 4. It’s crewed by robots and flies.
that one unit in Civilization you forgot about and never upgraded in 500 years
You don’t intentionally keep a unit museum? You’ll see me later Game pretty regularly with my frigate flagship followed by two privateers surrounded by modern naval units. It’s kinda fun to dunk on the PC with a fuckin broadside.
Cool ship, took a tour last year
From the other sideMen only want one thing and it’s
disgustingbeautiful
I took a tour in June of 1980. Great ship. Fun to see an old sailing vessel up close.
Wow. Must’ve looked a lot fresher then.
Oldest American naval warship still afloat…
Or any nation as far as sources I have list.
Apparently there is this uge differwncw about where you storage them. The only reason some portugues and British ships aren’t the oldest sailing vessels is because we keep them in museums. Yhe but they are still in comission, sooo idk I guess we where both right depending how you frase it.
So, while the USS Constitution is the oldest naval vessel still afloat, the HMS Victory holds the record for the oldest naval vessel still in commission. Both ships are significant historical artifacts and serve as museum ships, commemorating important eras in naval history.
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So old it’s still grayscale
I’m guessing she’s having some work done to the rigging? Not a yard on her.
I feel like the term afloat is used because it not safe to take out in open water?
No, they sail her around all the time. The USS Constitution is a commissioned vessel in the United States Navy, crewed by active duty sailors. They use the term “afloat” because HMS Victory is the oldest commissioned naval vessel, but she is kept as a museum ship in drydock.
That makes sense, appreciate the answer. I’ve just always heard it as “sea-worthy” before, afloat in that sense is a little weird.
Well, knowing the USN, the reason is either a) some extremely long, convoluted line of reasoning formulated through several Senate subcommittee hearings to avoid pissing anyone off or b) someone wrote it that way once 75 years ago, and no one knows enough about why to want to change it.
Fun fact: HMS Victory was actually bombed by the Nazis during WWII, which means she technically saw combat over a span of
144164 years (1778-1941).Edit: math are hard.
Oldest “active” ship in the US (or any) navy, IIRC, they take it out once a year to get rated seaworthy & remain active. Amazing ship. want to feel like a puny, pampered modern person? Read Patrick Obriens 20 volume Master and Commander series…so many unwashed asses on these for so many months in some of the most inhospitable regions of this planet.
I’m more into space, but I’ll put it on the list…
I alternate between space trash and historical fiction
There’s an aubreyandmaturin community here on sh.itjust.works but it’s pretty inactive.
There are dozens of us…DOZENS!
Nope. Old Ironsides is seaworthy and makes regular trips out to open ocean, usually under tow but she has an incomplete set of sails and can sail under her own power.
The US Navy owns a plot of southern live oak trees in Georgia set aside specifically for maintaining USS Constitution.
From what I’ve been able to find, the ships were originally built using live oak trees from Georgia, but the forest the US Navy maintains for the USS Constitution is in Indiana.
https://www.military.com/history/why-us-navy-manages-its-own-private-forest.html
https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2015/05/11/the-wooden-walls/
TIL.
Digging all the little details, of course I could have just looked it up, but engagement!
Wouldn’t be very good if they kept a plot of dead oak trees.
I wonder what happened to the USS Charisma
Is that at Fisherman’s Wharf?
It’s in Boston, at the end of the Freedom Trail.
Charlestown navy yard, a bit north of downtown. Fish Pier is in South Boston.
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Ad apposed to a non-naval warship?
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