The 44-Gun Frigate USS Constitution 'Old Ironsides

Karl Heinz Marquardt

Bog | Engelsk

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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. H…