Today, perhaps 15 percent of USS Constitution – including ... 3 minutes to bend the wood into the right shape to fit Constitution’s hull. white oak trees designated by the Navy for use in ...

USS Constitution was one of six frigates authorized for construction by an act of Congress in 1794. Joshua Humphreys designed them to be the Navy's capital ships. Larger and more heavily armed ...

The USS Constitution ... historical shape after decades of repairs that did not follow the original design. Among the efforts, the Constitution will get new copper plates for the hull to make ...

The Navy's oldest commissioned warship, the USS Constitution, is coming up on her ... on the condition of the timbers. The ship's hull from about a foot above the water line all the way down ...

The most recent work included replacing 100 hull planks and installing 2,200 new copper sheets, 500 of which were signed by nearly 100,000 museum visitors, according to USS Constitution Museum ...

while the British vessels' 18-pound cannonballs had trouble penetrating the Constitution's two-foot thick live oak hull, said Matthew Brenckle, a historian at the USS Constitution Museum.

The USS Constitution is a triple-masted wooden heavy frigate, and it's the oldest commissioned warship still afloat. The ship first launched in 1797 as the first of six frigates commissioned for ...

The mighty USS Constitution ... of direct cannon fire from British warship HMS Guerriere. The Constitution, under Captain Isaac Hull, destroyed the Guerriere and forced her to surrender in ...

the centuries old USS Constitution, the U.S. Navy's symbolic flagship and floating museum will be put into her almost equally as vintage dry dock for inspections and repairs to her wooden hull and ...

The Navy warship earned the nickname "Old Ironsides" during the War of 1812 when British cannonballs were seen bouncing off the USS Constitution's wooden hull. The ship also played a crucial role ...

After a two-year restoration at historic Dry Dock 1 at Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston National Historical Park, America's oldest commissioned warship, USS ... touched Constitution's hull in 26 ...