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  USS Constellation (1797) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The original USS Constellation constructed in 1797 was a 38-gun frigate and the first ship to be commissioned in the United States Navy.
The original USS Constellation was broken up for scrap in 1853 in Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, Virginia at the same time as the keel was laid for what would later be known as the second USS Constellation.
Constellation was built at Harris Creek Shipyard in Baltimore 's Fells Point and launched on 7 September 1797, just as the United States entered the Quasi-War with France.
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 USS Constellation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The first Constellation 38 a frigate was the first ship to be commissioned in the United States Navy; the US Navy vessel to put to sea; the first US Navy vessel to engage and capture an enemy vessel.
The second Constellation was a sloop of war that served from 1855 to 1933 and as of 2003 is preserved as a National Historic Landmark in Baltimore Maryland.
USS Constellation: Pride Of The American Navy by Walter Dean Myers is the story of an american warship from the days of tall sails, wooden ships, and an American navy becoming increasingly active on the high seas.
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 DANFS: USS Constellation (IX-20)
Constellation returned to the States in November 1805, mooring at Washington where she later was placed in ordinary until 1812.
In 1827 Constellation acted briefly as flagship for the West India Squadron on a twofold mission involving the eradication of the last of the pirates end' the interception of slavers operating in the area.
Constellation was recommissioned on 28 July 1855 and departed under the flag of Captain C. Bell for a 3-year cruise with the Mediterranean Squadron to protect American interests.
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 Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - USS Constellation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
During the Barbary Wars, in 1802, Constellation was assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron and took part in the evacuation of Derna and in actions against Tunis in 1805.
Constellation was in ordinary from 1845 to 1853.
It is quite clear that the Navy establishment felt Constellation ought to be maintained in some form, and it is possible that some timbers from the ship of 1797 were incorporated in the construction of the sloop of war Constellation in 1854.
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 Constellation Strike Group
Constellation and Enterprise operated on Yankee Station together during the month until 10 December, when Enterprise was unexpectedly directed to transit to the Indian Ocean where she operated as flagship for the newly formed Task Force 74 for the possible evacuation of U.S. citizens from East Pakistan in connection with the Indo-Pakistani war.
Constellation and her escorts were released from contingency operations in the South China Sea on 28 January.
Constellation and her escorts were ordered to the Gulf of Aden on 7 March 1979 in response to the conflict between North and South Yemen.
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 USS Constellation: Pride of the American Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The author also explains how the Constellation was operated and how its sailors were trained, and sums up the various rebuilding efforts that culminated in restoring her to her 1854 condition and her 1999 return to Baltimore Harbor.
Very nicely illustrated with archival drawings and photographs, the USS Constellation: Pride Of The American Navy is as entertaining as it is informative and very highly recommended for both school and community library American History collection.
Uss Constellation: Pride of the American Navy And CDL - Commercial...
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 USS Constellation 1854 - Definition up Erdmond.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Her keel was laid on 25_June 1853, in Gosport_Navy_Yard in Norfolk,_Virginia, at the same time as the 1797 frigate ''Constellation'' was being broken up.
Decommissioned in 1933, Constellation was recommissioned as a national symbol in 1940 by President_of_the_United_States Franklin_Roosevelt.
Constellation was again decommissioned on 4_February 1955, and stricken from the Naval_Vessel_Register on 15_August 1955 -- about two weeks and one hundred years from her first commissioning.
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 New Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The last all-sail warship constructed by the United States Navy, USS Constellation is the last surviving vessel afloat that actively served in the Union or Confederate Navies during the Civil War.
It was during this modification from second-class ship frigate to sloop-of-war that Constellation 's hull was lengthened and updated to incorporate specific naval architectural advances in the art of shipbuilding and ordnance developed in the first half of the nineteenth century.
USS Constellation : An Illustrated History, the first comprehensive account of the Constellation 's journey through the years, tells this story and showcases over 200 images, including photographs, engravings, paintings, and sketches gathered from museums, archives, and private collections.
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 USS Constellation Association - Constellation's History
In 1982, Constellation returned to the yards, this time in Bremerton, Wash. Naval aviation had undergone vast changes since 1961, and when Connie came out of the yards in 1984 two weeks early and under budget, it was completely modernized.
The USS Constellation CVA/CV-64 Association along with the officers and crew of the CONSTELLATION on October 27th celebrated her 40 years of proud service to a grateful nation.
In 1797 the first ship of the U.S. Navy, the U.S.F. “frigate”; Constellation was commissioned, she was named for the flag of the Continental Congress.
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 Constellation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The first USS Constellation, 38, a frigate, was the first ship to be commissioned in the United States Navy; the first US Navy vessel to put to sea; and the first...
Pegasus (the winged horse) is a northern constellation.
Lynx is a constellation of the northern hemisphere, introduced in the 17th century by Johannes Hevelius.
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 USS Constellation 1797 - Definition up Erdmond.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Constellation was built at Harris_Creek_Shipyard in Baltimore 's Fells Point and launched on 7_September 1797, just as the United States entered the Quasi-War with France.
On 9_February 1799, under the command of Captain Thomas_Truxtun, Constellation fought and captured the frigate L’Insurgente, 36, the fastest ship in the French Navy -- the first major victory by an American-designed and -built warship.
Her speed inspired the French to nickname her the "Yankee Racehorse." Constellation served in the Barbary_Wars against Tripoli and in the War_of_1812 against Great_Britain.
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 USS Constellation sails home after a century - The Washington Times: Metropolitan - October 27, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The USS Constellation, the last all-sail ship originally launched in 1854 and dry-docked at Baltimore's Inner Harbor, is in Annapolis through Monday to celebrate its 150th anniversary.
As the Constellation passed Baltimore's Fort McHenry, where an American stand against a British bombardment during the War of 1812 inspired the "The Star-Spangled Banner," four A-10 Warthogs from the Maryland Air National Guard flew overhead, said Capt. Christopher Rowsom, executive director of the USS Constellation Museum in Baltimore, who was aboard during yesterday's voyage.
Its keel was laid on June 25, 1853, and the Constellation was launched on Aug. 26, 1854, at the Gosport Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Va. It was commissioned on July 28, 1855.
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 USS Constellation (1797) [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The first USS Constellation, a 38-gun frigate In modern military terminology, a frigate is a warship intended to protect other warships and merchant marine ships and as anti-submarine warfare (ASW) combatants for amphibious expeditionary forces, underway replenishment groups, and merchant convoys....
Constellation was built at Harris Creek Shipyard in Baltimore 's Fells Point and launched The ceremonies involved in 'naming and launching' naval ships are based in traditions thousands of years old.
A Babylonian narrative dating from the 3rd millennium BC describes the completion of a ship: Openings to the water I stopped; I searched for cracks and the wanting parts I fixed: Three sari of bitumen I poured over the outside; To the gods I caused oxen to be sacrificed.
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 Constellation on Encyclopedia.com
The Constellation was blockaded at Norfolk, Va. during the War of 1812, but further victories followed in the Mediterranean in 1815.
An F-18 Hornet lands on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Constellation during training exercises off the coast of California.
The USS Constellation is seen from a plane during training exercises off the coast of California.
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 Haze Gray & Underway Photo Feature: Sloop-of-War USS Constellation
During 1852-53 the old 38-gun frigate USS Constellation, a contemporary of USS Constitution, was broken up at Gosport (Norfolk), VA. At the same time, in the same yard, a new 22-gun sloop-of-war was constructed, and was given the old frigate's name.
This group wished to portray the ship as the 1797 frigate, not the 1855 sloop, so they "restored" her by cutting away bulwarks and decks.
Constellation hull was hogged 34 inches, most of her major timbers were badly rotted, all of her rigging was ruined, and she was leaking badly.
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 FON - USS Constellation
She was designed with a main battery of 36 guns, had a crew complement of 340 men, and displaced 1,278 tons with a beam of 41 feet and length of 164 feet.
USS Nimitz as seen from the USS Constellation while we were waiting pier side.
USS Nimitz was docked next to the USS Constellation in San Diego.
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 USS Constellation
Constellation was detached from the Mediterranean Squadron on 17 April 1858 and after a brief cruise in Cuban waters where she safeguarded American commerce against unlawful search on the high seas, returned to the New York Navy Yard on 5 June.
To modify Constellation for that mission, her armament and some ballast were removed, and carpenters at the New York Navy Yard built bins on the orlop deck to carry a cargo of over 2,500 barrels of potatoes and flour.
Constellation made her last public appearance as a commissioned U.S. Navy ship during the ceremonies accompanying the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1926.
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 Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - USS Constellation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She sailed to Europe for the Paris Exposition of 1878 and the Columbian Exposition of 1892, to Ireland with food aid in 1880, and to Baltimore for the centenary of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in 1914.
Constellation was renamed New Constellation from 1917 to 1925, to free the name for a cruiser that was eventually scrapped under the Washington Naval Agreement of 1922.
Recommissioned in 1940, Constellation served as relief flagship for the Atlantic Fleet and Battleship Division Five from 1941 to 1943.
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 United States Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
USS Thresher - sunk in an accident in 1963
USS Merrimac - a wooden warship rebuilt by the Confederates as the ironclad CSS Virginia
Sank the USS Housatonic with its spar-mounted torpedo, but was sunk during or soon after the same battle, with all hands on board.
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 sci.military.naval FAQ, Part H - Age of Sail & Historic Ships
USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship in the US Navy, and the oldest warship afloat in the world.
She was one of the six frigates authorized in 1794; Constellation was one of the three 36-gun ships of the group ( Constitution was one of the three 44-gun ships).
Constellation was moved from her berth to a shipyard on 17 November 1996; restoration started soon thereafter.
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 uss constellation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
USS Constellation (1854) The second USS Constellation of the United States Navy was a sloop of war.
USS Constellation Three ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Constellation, in honor, according to the US Congress, of the "new constellation of stars" on the flag of the United States.
USS Constellation (CC-2) The keel of a Lexington-class battle cruiser, to have been named USS Constellation (CC-2), was laid at Newport News, Virginia...
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 Amazon.ca: Books: USS Constellation: From Frigate to Sloop of War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As the Constellation's story is told, so is the history of the US Navy during the first half of the Nineteenth Century, together with an illuminating picture of the practice of repair of wooden warships.
Footner gives lie to the theory promulgated by Howard Chappelle from the 1940's onward until his death that the 1797 Constellation was broken up and an unauthorized ship of the same name built in her place.
Footner convincingly demonstrates that a rebuild of Constellation was authorized with the knowledge of congress and the Naval establishment.
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 USS CONSTELLATION BY LATINA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
USS Constellation is a 22 gun corvette or 'sloop of war' designed by John Lenthall and
On February 5, 1799, for instance, the USS Constellation captured the French 36 gun frigate 'Insurgente' off the Island of Nevis in the West Indies.
Today the USS Constellation is a floating museum and the last civil war era vessel still afloat today..
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 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF LAUNCH OF USS CONSTELLATION CELEBRATED WITH NEW U.S. POSTAGE STAMP
For decades naval authorities disagreed on whether Constellation was a new ship built in 1854 or a modification of the 1797 frigate of the same name.
The USS Constellation depicted on the stamp, as the last Civil War-era naval vessel still afloat, was built at the Gosport Navy Yard (now the Norfolk, VA, Naval Shipyard) and launched on August 26, 1854.
During the Civil War, the Constellation was assigned to the Mediterranean and later to the Gulf of Mexico blockade.
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 1797 [Definition]
1797 was a common year starting on Sunday This is the calendar for any common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A).
It was signed at Tripoli on November 4, 1796 and at Algiers (for a third-party guarantee) on January 3, 1797 by Joel Barlow, the American consul to the Barbary states of Algiers, Tripoli and Tunis.
1797 - In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
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 Mass News Template   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Many of Constellation's flight deck crew gather on the flight deck to record holiday greetings to be sent to local and national media outlets.
Chief Robinson tells MassNews that aboard USS Constellation, "there is a Christmas meal planned to serve in the mess facilities." The meal will include "turkey, ham, cranberry salad, different kinds of bread, apple, tomato, and orange juice, and three different kinds of pie: Pumpkin, pecan, and apple.
USS Constellation is head of a "battle group" which includes 11 smaller ships and ten air squadrons.
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 USS Constellation Special Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
USS Constellation offers visitors hands-on activities and demonstrations by the Ship's Crew including regularly scheduled cannon firing demonstrations.
The USS Constellation Museum presents the world premiere of Levy's Ghost, a Lewis Schrager play about the life of Uriah Phillips Levy, 19th-century Jewish naval hero, who fought to abolish the practice of flogging in the US Navy and overcame religious persecution, ultimately achieving the rank of Commodore.
USS Constellation Museum celebrates the 151st Anniversary of the ship's 1854 launch.
www.constellation.org /events/events.html   (806 words)

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