ON A BEAUTIFUL, BUT VERY HOT AND HUMID SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2018, THE CORVETTE CLUB OF RHODE ISLAND HELD IT'S 48th ANNUAL CORVETTES BY THE SEA EVENT. OVER 250 CARS SHOWED UP FOR THE DAY AT SCALABRINI VILLA IN NORTH KINGSTOWN, RHODE ISLAND.
THE USS CONSTITUTION AKA "OLD IRONSIDES" IS DOCKED AT THE CHARLESTOWN
(MA) NAVY YARD. VISITED ON AUGUST 2, 2018 AND WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE
MUSEUM, THE SHIP, AND THE U.S. NAVY STAFF ONBOARD THE SHIP. PROUD TO BE
AN AMERICAN.
"USS Constitution - Wooden-Hulled Three-Masted Heavy Frigate
The USS
Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a wooden-hulled,
three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy named by President
George Washington after the United States Constitution. She is the
world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat. She was launched
in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the
Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed. Joshua Humphreys designed
the frigates to be the young Navy's capital ships, and so Constitution
and her sisters were larger and more heavily armed and built than
standard frigates of the period. She was built in the North End of
Boston, Massachusetts at Edmund Hartt's shipyard. Her first duties were
to provide protection for American merchant shipping during the
Quasi-War with France and to defeat the Barbary pirates in the First
Barbary War."