Newly Restored USS Constitution Is Returning to the Water

Bloomberg ^ | 7/23/17 | CRYSTAL HILL

[Carbonsteel]

A true national treasure.

[2ndDivisionVet]

They’ve restored it many times over the years, IIRC.

[Mercat]

I watched it sail away to dry dock. I wish I could see her come home.

[bravo whiskey]

i believe this was to take her back to 1812 configuration. had the opportunity to take a friend on a weekend with behind the scene and private tours and a turn around

[IronJack]

There’s very little left of the original ship, I suspect. Still, it’s on my bucket list of things to see ... If only it wasn’t in Boston.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Was she one of the ships that the CSS Virginia (nee Merrimack) was attempting to destroy?

[WHATNEXT?]

I think I read the masts are Oregon Douglas Fir?

[nickedknack]

It’s only been in recent years that Old Ironsides has undergone the kinds of thorough overhauls that have made it seaworthy and capable of being under sail. What a ship.

Now the national disgrace is the SS United States, rusting away at a pier in Philadelphia and one step closer to the scrap yard. All the things on which the Federal govt. wastes money, and it won’t come up the funds to save one of the greatest ship’s ever built and a symbol of American pride, power, and glory.

[mountainlion]

Weren’t the Barbary Pirates the reason that the USS Constitution was built?

[100American]

Restoring the USS Constitution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSDyplhkxUE

They are revamping her big time and improving the original design but following it meticulously

[real saxophonist]

Visited Boston once. To see a girl. Saw Ric Ocasec drive by in a white Mercedes convertible, went to Chowdafest, visited the Berklee College of Music (you couldn't pay me enough to go there), went to a museum that had a Rembrandt that looked like a 3D photograph.

I saw the Constitution from across the Harbor. Somehow I didn't get over there and take a tour. Should have.

[henkster]

The Navy Surface Warfare Center in southern Indiana maintains a stand of white oak trees specifically designated for the periodic restorations of the Constitution.

https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2015/05/11/the-wooden-walls/

[HereInTheHeartland]

” To see a girl. “

What happened with the girl?

[crz]

And it is a fact that the shot bounced off her sides.

She is made of Live Oak.

Gonna find the youtube of them testing that fact.

[LS]

Paul Revere, at age 65, set up a new copper rolling mill to do copper plating and other copper pieces for the ship.

100 years later, a Navy officer examining the ship found that every single one of Revere’s copper bolts had stretched to the limit, but not one had broken.

[Da Bilge Troll]

"Was she one of the ships that the CSS Virginia (nee Merrimack) was attempting to destroy? "

No, the USS Constitution was already about 100 years old by that time.

[fella]

Re: #6; during the civil she was a training ship.

[real saxophonist]

She was a Jersey girl, going to school in Boston, I was a Georgia boy. We met through Drum Corps. Just didn’t work out.

[2ndDivisionVet]

1797 to 1861 isn’t one hundred years.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Gotcha.
Sounded like a good story!