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    Extremely Cool

    Posted by David Foster on August 19th, 2012 (All posts by )

    Weather permitting, the 200-year-old USS Constitution will be going for a brief sail today.

    The ship’s website is here.

     

    This entry was posted on Sunday, August 19th, 2012 at 6:51 am and is filed under History, Transportation, USA, War and Peace. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

    One Response to “Extremely Cool”

    1. Michael Kennedy Says:
      August 19th, 2012 at 2:11 pm

      One of the few good things that Jefferson did as president was to build the spar deck frigates, which were about half way between a ship of the line and a frigate by British standards. There were six of them and, had Jefferson built ships of the line, the 1812 war would have been quite different. The US had a strong tradition of seamanship and the big frigates were overmanned, in contrast to the British pressed crews.

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