The Constitution was one of the US Navy's first six original
frigates, ordered as a counter to the Barbary corsairs in the
Mediterranean. Fast and heavily built, she was nominally rated as a
44 but mounted thirty 24-pdr and twenty-two 12-pdr cannon. Her most
famous encounter, after which she became nicknamed 'Old Ironsides'
due to British shot being seen bouncing off her hull, involved HMS
Guerriere, which she smashed; the same treatment was meted out to
HMS Java four months later. Now the oldest commissioned warship
afloat in thw world, she is berthed in Boston Harbor. The 'Anatomy
of the Ship' series aims to provide the finest documentation of
individual ships and ship types ever published. What makes the
series unique is a complete set of superbly executed line drawings,
both the conventional type of plan as well as explanatory views,
with fully descriptive keys. These are supported by technical
details and a record of the ship's service history.
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