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'Old Ironsides', as the USS Constitution is affectionately known, acquired her nickname during the dramatic confrontation with HMS Guerriere in 1812, during which the enemy's shot failed to penetrate her strong oak hull. By this time she was already fifteen years old. As one of the six original frigates ordered by George Washington on March 27th, 1794, she and her sisters represent the birth of the US Navy and she occupies a special place in its history.
In 1954 President Eisenhower signed into law the repair and restoration of Constitution as a museum vessel, and she has remained one of the major visitor attractions of the Boston National Historic Park since its inception twenty years later. In this brand new addition to the well-established and highly popular 'Anatomy' series, the author has compared draughts from the twentieth-century restorations with original plans from 1796 and drawings from her major refit in the 1840's, to produce, for the first time, and accurate set of plans for the frigate as she would have appeared during the Anglo-American War.
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A full description of one of the United States' most famous historic preserved ships in her 1812-1815 appearance
More than 250 perspective and 3-view drawings, with in-depth descriptive keys, of every detail of the ship - general arrangements, hull construction, fittings, masts, and yards, rigging, and sails, and armament
Pictorial section showing full-view and on-board photographs
One large-scale plan on the reverse of the fold-out jacket
A complete anatomy of the ship in words, photographs, and drawings.
In 1954 President Eisenhower signed into law the repair and restoration of Constitution as a museum vessel, and she has remained one of the major visitor attractions of the Boston National Historic Park since its inception twenty years later. In this brand new addition to the well-established and highly popular 'Anatomy' series, the author has compared draughts from the twentieth-century restorations with original plans from 1796 and drawings from her major refit in the 1840's, to produce, for the first time, and accurate set of plans for the frigate as she would have appeared during the Anglo-American War.
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Karl Heinz Marquardt is an internationally acclaimed draughtsman. He is also the author of two other Anatomy of the Ship volumes, on Captain Cook's Endeavour and Darwin's Beagle.
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- Publication date2017
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781472832580
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