Old Ironsides

[Ken Hutchins]

A great source of detailed information about this national treasure is the CD of all the engineering drawings of the ship, it includes details of things like sails, rigging, cannons, carriages, ships boats, etc. it even has mooring diagrams and wiring for the lights for holiday decorations. Great info for modelers or anyone interested in old ships. It has it's own viewer program and 3 or 4 hundred images. smile.gif As I recall it only cost $15 and is available from the Naval Historical Center Detachment Boston at the Charlestown Navy Yard, Charlestown, Ma

[Norske3]

...the CD is excellent...got one last year.. smile.gif

[Johannah]

But even better are the pictures in my head from crawling over this great ship at least once a year right through childhood. Complete with the smells and sounds (like that of head striking wood from going too fast on the companionways).

[brian.cunningham]

I was one of the lucky few that got to see it in dry dock.

WOW! :eek:

[Bayboat]

I have a distant memory of being aboard her in about 1937 when she visited San Francisco. She seemed very large in my 11-year-old perspective. Many years later I went aboard in Boston, and she seemed very small.

[Alan D. Hyde]

http://www.legendinc.com/Photos/Constitution/USSCSternDryDock.gif

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What a beauty!

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My apologies to those on slow dial-ups, but I couldn't resist posting one more.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/sail200f.jpg

Alan

[Andreas Jordahl Rhude]

Proud to say that my employer has been involved in making replacement wood materials for the old girl since the 1950s. Just got another order for some white oak glued laminated timber members. I personally have escorted the over length semi tractor-trailer to Charlestown on two occasions. One load was four pieces 18" x 18" x 106 feet in length for the lower portion of the main mast.

[Ken Hutchins]

Andreas, were relying on ya to do a good job smile.gif For info those four pieces are each to be one quarter of the mast, the final diameter at the partners is 2'8". smile.gif I'll be watching for that new wood, I go there for meetings of the Constitution Ship Model Guild. and usually arrive early so as to have time for admiring her. smile.gif

[Art Read]

Ah, She's just a bit of pine board and striped bunting...

[Dave Fleming]

Here ya go Bay and, it looks like 1933 to me.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid79/p1878452cbe23622c8cb0c11d8823afd8/fb19c434.jpg

[Andreas Jordahl Rhude]

Ken, those main mast pieces were delivered in January 1993 and four pieces for the foremast 14" x 14' x 95' were delivered in Sept. 1990. In a storm in April 1997 the top gallant mast 12" x 12" x 60' broke and my employer made a glued laminated timber replacement

[Bayboat]

Thanks, Dave. It could well have been 1933, when I was 7. In that case she looked more larger than life to me. I do remember that my Dad had a hard time keeping me from climbing around where I wasn't supposed to.