The 44-Gun Frigate USS Constitution, “Old Ironsides” (Anatomy of the Ship)
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press | English | PDF | 442.96 MB
Conway Maritime Press
2005
ISBN: 1591142504
130 Pages
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 (continue reading…)