Uss Constitution Video: USS Constitution

by admin on 19. Jan, 2012 in Model Ship Gallery

I found this great uss constitution video on youtube, I hope you enjoy it!

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25 Responses to “Uss Constitution Video: USS Constitution”

  1. JamesPolymer 19. Jan, 2012 at 1:16 pm #

    @looneyflight
    The main issue issue is her age; remember, the Constitution is over 200 years old, and maintaining her becomes more difficult with every strain on her timbers. (Since 9/11 I would think security is also a major concern.) The ship also has to pull daily shifts as a public exhibit moored near the USS Constitution Museum in the Charlestown Navy Yard.

  2. looneyflight 19. Jan, 2012 at 1:25 pm #

    does anyone know why they never put all the sails up? why they rarely ever sail it under it own power? and why has it never moved under its own power faster than 6 kts in over 100 years?

  3. elskeeper 19. Jan, 2012 at 2:10 pm #

    She sure is a beauty.

  4. xboxboy78 19. Jan, 2012 at 2:50 pm #

    My grandpa was a captain of the ship after she was decommissioned knud c. Rip grampa :(

  5. BonesLover247 19. Jan, 2012 at 3:00 pm #

    I have to say is she is one beautiful ship, not to mention she’s 214 years old (and still afloat to this day)

  6. BonesLover247 19. Jan, 2012 at 3:53 pm #

    @maureenOWW well that’s what the USS Constitution was designed for too, and as you can tell, she did pretty well, given the fact what she’s still afloat 214 years later. Also if someone wishes to compare the two they can, clearly you are, that last sentence is a major comparison I’d have to say, as is your little reference to the guns.

  7. USMarineRifleman0311 19. Jan, 2012 at 4:49 pm #

    she’s being boarded!!! man the sides and prepare to repel boarders!!

  8. bfs1888 19. Jan, 2012 at 5:03 pm #

    after reading some of below, now i don’t give a shit. You two are just plain assholes. I’m sure there is one answer. Just find it, and start acting your ages

  9. pathman2010 19. Jan, 2012 at 5:58 pm #

    @irishoforiel I’m sure this has been responded to, but Constitution never took on or captured a ship of the line, let alone two. I’m as big a patriot and fan of Ironsides as anyone, but no naval commander in their right mind would take a frigate of that era against a ship of the line–the frigate would be annihilated. She beat a couple fifth-rate frigates, but those weren’t considered ships of the line. She was built to beat ships of similar size, and to run from those that outgunned her.

  10. RetroVideoFan 19. Jan, 2012 at 6:22 pm #

    @tonyoffpompey Yes, in fact, the oldest floating commisioned naval vessel in the world.

  11. Daedalus94 19. Jan, 2012 at 6:38 pm #

    I think it`s ironic that the Conny with 56 guns was comparable to a fourth rate ship of the line armed with 46-56 guns.

  12. Vermiliontea 19. Jan, 2012 at 7:21 pm #

    @MrDeano324 (facepalm, though it somewhat explains where you’ve been, and where you posts from)
    Look: These ships weren’t even built then. Independence war ended 1783. Constitution was launched 1797.
    And I did answer your question. Twice.

  13. MrDeano324 19. Jan, 2012 at 7:54 pm #

    @Vermiliontea
    Well you couldnt answer my question could you ;) . And the battle that ultimately won the Independence war was the Battle of Chesapeake, in which 24 French ships defeated the 19 ship British fleet. This led directly to the surrender at Yorktown as no British supplies or munitions could get through. These frigats did not win U.S independence. The French did…

  14. Vermiliontea 19. Jan, 2012 at 8:11 pm #

    @MrDeano324 Building these ships was a laboured effort. The goals were sky high: Make France stop harrassing US shipping, make Barbary states stop harrassing US shipping, make Britain stop harrassing US shipping and recognize the independence of US in acts. The detractors many, costs insane and the task ambitious for the young nation with meagre means. Yet these special ships were painfully dragged to completion, and achieved all goals completely. “zero part in history”? USA is irrelevant then?

  15. Vermiliontea 19. Jan, 2012 at 8:40 pm #

    @MrDeano324 What is it you don’t understand? Britain dispatched many squadrons of ships of the line. Entire fleets. None of them ever got a chance to get an american frigate in range. What they did accomplish was to lock in some of them for much of the war with blockades. So “zero” is now anything not momentous enough for you to not belittle? And you thought what? :The success of USS Constitution had an enormous impact on US naval politics. Getting these built was the hard part. -> winning WW2.

  16. MrDeano324 19. Jan, 2012 at 9:24 pm #

    @Vermiliontea
    The nickname was given to the Britannia for the same reason. The Americans just stole it for their own vessel. Very origional. And as I said before, a British first rate would have ripped apart the Constitution with a single broadside. If the Royal Navy were that concerned, they would have dispatched one to deal with it. And Ignorance?. Tell me a battle USS Constitiution was involved in that changed the course of human history?…thought so…

  17. Vermiliontea 19. Jan, 2012 at 9:32 pm #

    @MrDeano324 Nickname was earned by never becoming much damaged in battle, and after finding twelve 32-pound balls embedded in the thick Quercus virginiana sides. 44 is just a rating, at the time US habitually rated frigs a dozen guns below. I don’t know why. RN was so concerned that they started building 40-gun 24-pounder frigs, two 60-gun frigs, and converted some 74-guns to heavy frigates in emergency.
    As for “zero part in world history”, it’s either your judgement or ignorance at display.

  18. Vermiliontea 19. Jan, 2012 at 10:14 pm #

    @MrDeano324 At this time, the US Navy was among the weakest in the western civilisation. And the british navy by far the most mighty. This fact is completely irrelevant to anything discussed here. At sea, the 1812 war was a commerce raiding war. While the war held other motives (Canada), it was prompted by britain harrassing american shipping and financing hostile indian nations. Since Britain agreed to stop both these activities, in the treaty that ended the war, it’s fair to say Britain lost.

  19. Vermiliontea 19. Jan, 2012 at 10:19 pm #

    @MrDeano324 Constitution was almost as long as Victory, and 15 ft taller. But was a frigate and could outsail all british frigates. Her sides were 21 in thick Quercus virginiana, 1.2 density. During 1812 war, she carried 56 guns. 4 long 24 pound cannons, 30 24 pound cannons and 22 32 pound carronades. She defeated 33 ships, including 5 RN Frigates, 2 of them in a single engagement. She was the most successful US ship during the war, which cost Britain in excess of 1500 lost ships.

  20. Vermiliontea 19. Jan, 2012 at 10:56 pm #

    @MrDeano324 Britain dispatched large squadrons of ships of the line, to blockade the entire US Atlantic coast. You don’t chase Frigs with ships of the line. That would be an exercise in futility. It was everyday routine for every frigate captain in the world to avoid ships of the line. Hunting frigates is a job for frigates. And Britain dispatched many frigate squadrons. After losing many ships, several frigates, they forbade british ships to engage US frigates and shiprigged sloops one on one.

  21. MrDeano324 19. Jan, 2012 at 11:34 pm #

    @Vermiliontea
    The Royal Navy dominated the American ‘Navy’. All the British had to do to protect a stretch of water, a convoy or a suppy line, was to deploy a couple of first rates. The American frigates would not have dared take on one of these floating goliaths. And they didnt. They took on British Frigates and sloops of war. Maybe thats where the phrase “pick on someone your own size”, comes from…

  22. MrDeano324 20. Jan, 2012 at 12:17 am #

    @Vermiliontea
    The Royal Navy was not concerned about Constitution. She was a 44 gun frigate. The Royal Navy had First Rate ships of the line boasting some 122 cannon. One broadside from a British First Rate would have decimated and sunk Constitution. HMS Victory was special, Santisima Trinidad was Special, The Bucentaure was Special. Theres nothing special or mighty about a frigate that played zero part in world history and that uses a nickname first coined by its enemy 30 years before…

  23. Vermiliontea 20. Jan, 2012 at 12:58 am #

    @MrDeano324 Don’t be so silly and chauvinistic. RN was very concerned about all american ships, and rightly so since they did a lot of damage. They tried their best and captured some american ships, Like Chesapeake, with a bit of luck. They needed the luck since the american ships, fleet frigates or privateers, could always sail away from the british if they didn’t want to fight. Finally Chesapeake was NOT a sister ship to Constitution, and NOT identical. Chesapeake was in fact much smaller.

  24. eggcompany 20. Jan, 2012 at 1:55 am #

    I’m happy that you people still compare and take pride these ships as they are actually incredible pieces of art and history in addition to representing military might. It’s really saddening that the only thing that symbolizes military might these days are nukes.

  25. MrDeano324 20. Jan, 2012 at 1:58 am #

    @cjmahoney
    Scourge of the Royal Navy?. If Great Britain was so concerned about her, they would have dispatched HMS Victory to annihilate her. Many Americans seem to forget that Constitutions sister ship USS Chesapeake was captured by one British 38 gun frigate. Constitution and Chesapeake were identical in every way. And the nickname ‘Old Ironsides’ was used by Britain to refer to HMS Britannia 32 years before Constitutions construction. Their was nothing special about Constitution. Just a myth

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