USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest ship still afloat. She was launched in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed.
- 15 October 1966
- 1797
- Joshua Humphreys
- Charlestown Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts
Nicknamed “Old Ironsides,” she is today berthed in Boston and is known as “America’s Ship of State.” Her story illuminates much about the U.S. Navy during the nation’s first 100 years. Constitution was laid down in Boston on November 1, 1794, one of the first six 44-gun frigates authorized for the U.S. Navy.
"Old Ironsides" is a poem written by American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on September 16, 1830, as a tribute to the 18th-century USS Constitution. The poem was one reason that the frigate was saved from being decommissioned, and it is now the oldest commissioned ship in the world that is still afloat.
Ironsides (in inglese "fianchi di ferro") era il soprannome dato alle unità di cavalleria pesante formate da Oliver Cromwell durante la guerra civile inglese (1642-1660), e che combatterono dalla parte dei Roundheads. Il nome fu loro dato a partire dall'appellativo Old Ironsides guadagnato da Cromwell dopo la sua vittoria nella ...
‘Old Ironsides’ was composed by Holmes as a tribute to the USS Constitution, an eighteenth-century ship which was on the verge of being decommissioned. The ship was given its nickname, “Old Ironsides,” during the War of 1812 after battling the HMS Guerriere
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