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Line 1: − + − + − + − !style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career+ − !style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|[[image:15 star Jack.PNG|52px|USN Jack]]+ − + − + − + − + − + − |[[7 September]] [[1797]]+ − + − + − + − + − !colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Specifications+ − |-+ − |Displacement:+ − |1,278 tons+ − |-+ − |Length:+ − + − |-+ − |Beam:+ − |41 feet (12.5 m)+ − − − − − − |14 knots (26 km/h) − |- − |Complement: − − − − |38 x 24 pounder (11 kg) long guns + Line 63:
Line 52: − {| style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em" border="1" align="right" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="300" − |align="center" colspan="2"| − |- − !style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career − !style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|[[File:50 star jack.png|52px|USN Jack]] − |- − |Commissioned: − |28 July 1855 − |- − |Fate: − |Museum; Baltimore, Maryland − |- − !colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Specifications − |- − |Displacement: − |1,400 tons − |- − |Length: − |179 feet − |- − |Beam: − |41 feet − |- − |Draft: − |21 feet − |- − |Propulsion: − |Sail − |- − |Speed: − |14 knots (26 km/h) − |- − |Complement: − |240 officers and enlisted − |- − |Armament: − |Sixteen 8-inch shell guns; four 32-pound pivot guns − |}
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{{Ship
|align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:USSconstellation1.jpg|300px|USS ''Constellation'']]
| name=USS ''Constellation''
|-
| image=USSconstellation1.jpg
| caption=
| flag-raw=[[File:15 star flag.png|40px]] [[Image:15 star Jack.PNG|30px]]
|-
| flag-caption=
|Ordered:
| owner=United States Navy
|[[27 March]] [[1794]]
| built=Sterrett Shipyard<br/>Baltimore, Maryland
|-
| authorized=27 March 1794
|Launched:
| keellaid=
| launched=7 September 1797
|-
| commissioned=1798<br/>28 July 1855
|Fate:
| retired=
|Rebuilt as a sloop-of-war
| status=Museum<br/>Baltimore, Maryland
|-
| type=Sail frigate (original design, 1797)<br/>Sloop-of-war (1853)
| displ=1,278 t (1797)<br/>1,400 t (1855)
| length=164 ft (1797)<br/>179 ft (1855)
| beam=41 ft
| draft=21 feet
| speed=14 knots
| test=
|164 feet (50 m)
| armament='''1797:'''<br/>thirty-eight 24 pd guns<br>'''1855:'''<br/>sixteen 8-inch shell guns<br/>four 32-pound pivot guns
| crew=340 officers and men (1797)<br/>240 officers and enlisted (1855)
| troops=
| pass=
|-
|Propulsion:
|Sail
|-
|Speed:
|340 officers and enlisted
|-
|Armament:
|}
|}
}}
'''USS ''Constellation''''' was one of the six original frigates of the [[United States Navy]], and for a time was assumed to have been broken up in 1853. Recent documentation has come to light that the sloop-of-war named ''Constellation'' now on display in Baltimore, Maryland is indeed the Navy's first commissioned warship.
'''USS ''Constellation''''' was one of the six original frigates of the [[United States Navy]], and for a time was assumed to have been broken up in 1853. Recent documentation has come to light that the sloop-of-war named ''Constellation'' now on display in Baltimore, Maryland is indeed the Navy's first commissioned warship.
==Second life==
==Second life==
''Constellation'' was redesigned into a sloop [http://www.frigateconstellation.com/new.htm] by John Lenthall at the Norfolk Navy Yard, and was commissioned on 28 July 1855 and departed under Captain Charles H. Bell for a 3-year cruise with the Mediterranean Squadron to protect American interests. While on station, ''Constellation'' was dispatched to protect American lives and property at Malaga, Spain, in July 1856 during a revolution in that country. While cruising in the Sea of Marmora the same year, she rescued a barque in distress, and received an official message in appreciation from the court of the Austrian emperor.
''Constellation'' was redesigned into a sloop [http://www.frigateconstellation.com/new.htm] by John Lenthall at the Norfolk Navy Yard, and was commissioned on 28 July 1855 and departed under Captain Charles H. Bell for a 3-year cruise with the Mediterranean Squadron to protect American interests. While on station, ''Constellation'' was dispatched to protect American lives and property at Malaga, Spain, in July 1856 during a revolution in that country. While cruising in the Sea of Marmora the same year, she rescued a barque in distress, and received an official message in appreciation from the court of the Austrian emperor.