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{{Ship

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| name=USS ''Constitution''  

| colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Ussconstitution.JPG|300px|USS ''Constitution'']]

| image=Ussconstitution.JPG

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| caption=

! style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;" | Career

| flag-raw=[[File:15 star flag.png|40px]] [[Image:15 star Jack.PNG|30px]]

! style="background:navy;align:right;" | [[Image:15 star Jack.PNG|48px|USN Jack]]

| flag-caption=

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| Launched: || 21 October 1797

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| authorized=27 March 1794

| Commissioned: || 5 May 1798

| keellaid=16 March 1914

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| launched=21 October 1797

| Current status:

| commissioned=5 May 1798

| In commission, open to the public

| retired=

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| status=Museum<br/>Boston, Massachusetts

! colspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;" | Specifications

| type=Sail frigate

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| displ=1,576 t

| Displacement: || 1,576t

| length=175 ft at waterline<br/>204 ft overall

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| beam=44.3 ft

| Dimensions: || 175 ft x 44.3ft x 13.9ft

| draft=13.9 ft

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| speed=13+ knots

| Armament:

| test=

| 32-24pdr<br>22-42pdr carronades<br>1-long 18pdr

| armament=thirty-two 24 pd guns<br>twenty-two 42 pd carronades<br>two 24 pd bow chasers

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| crew=420 officers and men

| Complement: || 420 officers and crew

| troops=

| pass=

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'''USS ''Constitution''''', one of the original six ships of the fledgling [[United States Navy]] and the only surviving one, is a three-masted sail frigate of 44 guns opened to the public at the former Boston Navy Yard in Massachusetts.  ''Constitution'' bears the distinction of having the most ship-to-ship victories of any ship in the Navy; one of which earned for her the name "Old Ironsides" after sailors observed cannonshot bouncing off her hull.

'''USS ''Constitution''''', one of the original six ships of the fledgling [[United States Navy]] and the only surviving one, is a three-masted sail frigate of 44 guns opened to the public at the former Boston Navy Yard in Massachusetts.  ''Constitution'' bears the distinction of having the most ship-to-ship victories of any ship in the Navy; one of which earned for her the name "Old Ironsides" after sailors observed cannonshot bouncing off her hull.