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USS Constellation (1854) USS. Constellation. (1854) / 39.285528°N 76.611194°W / 39.285528; -76.611194. USS Constellation is a sloop-of-war, the last sail-only warship designed and built by the United States Navy. She was built at the Gosport Shipyard between 1853 and 1855. She was named for the earlier frigate of the same name that ...
The USS Constellation is a sloop-of-war, the last sail-only warship designed and built by the United States Navy. She was built in 1854, using a small amount of material salvaged from the frigate USS Constellation, which had been disassembled the year before. She is now preserved as a museum ship in Baltimore, Maryland, and is a National ...
May 24, 2024 · Joshua Hanlon is joined by Brian Auer for a tour of the last American sailing ship ever built: USS Constellation.Info for visiting can be found on the Histor...
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But newer scholarship and ongoing reconstruction are giving this veteran back her identity as the 1854 sloop-of-war she is. She served in the Civil War, and later as a training ship at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and at Newport, and the Constellation ’s interpretative guides and signage do well in telling her story and the story of the Civil War–era Navy.
Between 1800 and 1854 there exists a rich lode of documentation concerning the U. S. Navy’s administration of this policy, much of it previously unpublished. Included is data concerning the Constellation’s rebuilds in 1812, in 1829, and again in 1839, during which major modifications were made to her hull dimensions and shape prior to 1853 ...
Dec 10, 2022 · In 1955, Constellation was brought to Baltimore to be preserved as a national shrine. The ship underwent a massive restoration (1996-1999) to return her to her original 1854 configuration. She is now open for public tours, offering a wide array of living history and educational programs.
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Jun 12, 2006 · Constellation was a relatively new ship in 1861, having only been commissioned in 1855, and was the last sail-powered vessel built for the U.S. Navy. The three-masted ship was considered a sloop-of-war, or corvette, though at 186 feet in gun-deck length she was the largest ship of that class built by the U.S. Navy to date.
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