But a single thirty day period later, she achieved with one of these yet again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the 1st shot of the legendary battle; twenty minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly ruined that she was not really worth towing to port.As Constitution settled in once again for the Academy, a seri

will be the oldest commissioned warship on this planet continue to afloat. Nicknamed “Old Ironsides,” she's today berthed in Boston and is known as “America’s Ship of Point out.” Her Tale illuminates A great deal about the U.S. Navy in the course of the country’s 1st a hundred many years.As Constitution settled in again with the Academy