The Constitution was one of the US Navy's first six original frigates, ordered as a counter to the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean. Fast and heavily built, she was nominally rated as a 44 but mounted thirty 24-pdr and twenty-two 12-pdr cannon. Her most famous encounter, after which she became nicknamed 'Old Ironsides' due to British shot being seen bouncing off her hull, involved HMS Guerriere, which she smashed; the same treatment was meted out to HMS Java four months later.
Now the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, she is berthed in Boston Harbor.
Название: The 44-Gun Frigate USS CONSTITUTION "Old Ironsides"
Автор: Karl Heinz Marquardt
Издательство: Conway Maritime Press
Год издания: 2005
Серия: Anatomy of the Ship
ISBN: 1-59114-250-4
Язык: English
страниц: 130
Формат: PDF
Размер: 114,4 mb
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