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Fun fact about th USS Constitution, the US Navy maintains an entire white oak forest in Indiana just to use in the maintenance of this one ship.
Pfft that's nothing. HMAS Melbourne was the only Australian ship to sink two friendly ships in peacetime 💪
She was just that eager to spill blood.
Metal as fuck
It's cooler in Fallout 4. It's crewed by robots and flies.
Also real life is a downer. Was super cramped, don’t know how they fit 100 dudes in that thing.
Also, since our taxes are keeping it floatable, would it kill them to bring it into armament parity? Swap out the guns with missile tubes, maybe an icbm tower in one of the masts?
Are M134 chaser guns too much to ask for?
CIWS on that baby or bust
that one unit in Civilization you forgot about and never upgraded in 500 years
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Cool ship, took a tour last year
From the other side
Men only want one thing and it's ~~disgusting~~ beautiful
I took a tour in June of 1980. Great ship. Fun to see an old sailing vessel up close.
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I have a 3ft model of the constitution in a box that I've been meaning to put together for about 10 years now... but cats.
Maybe someday I'll have a spot to put it together in peace.
I got a china cabinet at an estate sale and have been putting some Lego sets in there and its been cat proof…….. so far
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Oldest American naval warship still afloat....
Or any nation as far as sources I have list.
Apparently there is this uge differwncw about where you storage them. The only reason some portugues and British ships aren't the oldest sailing vessels is because we keep them in museums. Yhe but they are still in comission, sooo idk I guess we where both right depending how you frase it.
So, while the USS Constitution is the oldest naval vessel still afloat, the HMS Victory holds the record for the oldest naval vessel still in commission. Both ships are significant historical artifacts and serve as museum ships, commemorating important eras in naval history.
Although HMS victory is the oldest naval vessel in comission, she's got 3 decades on the old girl
That looks rad!
What's the shitter look like?
None to speak of. Poop was slammed off the sides.
Both wrong and right
https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2014/01/18/head-lines/
Hilarious title, 'Head Lines'
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So old it's still grayscale
Does it still sail, tough? I know the French analog, the Hermione, does.
Yes, at least once, maybe twice a year it sails. Meanwhile it’s docked at its own museum the rest of the year - the ship itself is free, but they charge for the museum. I’ve seen it many times
Funny anecdote: when I first met my about to become new in-laws, they came from Washington DC to visit me in Boston for the Fourth of July. I was excited to take them to see the Constitution, both boarding at the museum dock and watching it “sail” down Boston harbor. I must have gone on a bit, due to my excitement ….. eventually my about to be new mother-in-law from DC spoke up with not understanding how they could do that with such an historic document, and what would there be to see anyway
Someone else mentioned that they raffle off tickets to be on it when it does. I remember there were QR codes posted to be entered in the drawing for the July 4th sailing.
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I'm guessing she's having some work done to the rigging? Not a yard on her.
I wonder what happened to the USS Charisma
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