Very few people realize that the Constitution is still on the Navy’s active duty roster””
The USS Constitution is also the ONLY active ship in the navy that has actually engaged and sunk an enemy ship!
That, I did not know at all. I'm kinda blushing to admit that I only knew about the Constitution being on the rolls because it was a plot point in one of the episodes of the G.I. Joe cartoon in the Eighties. IIRC, the Constitution sank a full-sized Navy battleship whose captain had defected to Cobra.
Yeah you read that right. A sailing ship destroys a steel-hulled battleship.
YO JOE!!!