To: bravo whiskey
Was she one of the ships that the CSS Virginia (nee Merrimack) was attempting to destroy?
6 posted on
07/23/2017 5:52:32 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"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.
16 posted on
07/23/2017 6:23:23 PM PDT by
Da Bilge Troll
(Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Re: #6; during the civil she was a training ship.
17 posted on
07/23/2017 6:25:12 PM PDT by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
No, Consitution had been converted to a school ship in 1858
She was at Annapolis MD when the Civil War stated. She was towed up to Newport RI where she remained throughout the war.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Was she one of the ships that the CSS Virginia (nee Merrimack) was attempting to destroy? The ships attacked by the CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads in 1862 were the sailing frigates USS Congress and USS Cumberland, which were sunk, and the steam-sailer USS Minnesota, which was damaged.
24 posted on
07/23/2017 6:44:56 PM PDT by
Fiji Hill
(Io Triumphe)
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