USS Constitution, otherwise called Old Ironsides, is a wooden-hulled, three-masted overwhelming frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's most established charged maritime vessel still above water. She was propelled in 1797, one of six unique frigates approved for development by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third built. The name "Constitution" was among ten names submitted to President George Washington by Secretary of War Timothy Pickering in March of 1795 for the frigates that should have been built.
Joshua Humphreys planned the frigates to be the youthful Navy's capital boats, thus Constitution and her sisters were bigger and more intensely outfitted and worked than standard frigates of the period. She was worked at Edmund Hartt's shipyard in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts. Her first obligations were to give insurance to American dealer shipping during the Quasi-War with France and to vanquish the Barbary privateers in the First Barbary War.
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Joshua Humphreys planned the frigates to be the youthful Navy's capital boats, thus Constitution and her sisters were bigger and more intensely outfitted and worked than standard frigates of the period. She was worked at Edmund Hartt's shipyard in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts. Her first obligations were to give insurance to American dealer shipping during the Quasi-War with France and to vanquish the Barbary privateers in the First Barbary War.
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