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(painted 37" / special 37" / special 62")
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USS Constitution models sizes

37" long x 12" Wide x 28" High model
painted & special edn: (1:100 scale)
Requires over 450 hours to build from scratch

62" long x 22" Wide x 44 " High model
special edn large: (1:60 scale)
Requires over 1200 hours to build from scratch

general information about models

(not from a model kit) by a master artisan.

Plank on bulkhead construction (a painstaking process where each individual plank is added to the
hull one at a time).
Built with rare, high quality woods such as light ebony,
rosewood and blackwood.

The model rests perfectly on a large, polished base
between four arched dolphins.
Masterfully stitched canvas sails.
No plastic parts
metal anchors and machine turned brass cannons.
Significant deck detail.

To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings,
copies of original plans and photos of the actual ship.

HISTORY

The USS Constitution is made of timber from Maine to Georgia and armed with cannons cast in
Rhode Island and copper fastenings provided by non other than Paul Revere. Launched in Boston,
she first put to sea in 1798. Having remained a part of the U.S. Navy since that day, Constitution is
the oldest commissioned warship in the world - still afloat!

Her first mission, during the late 1790's, was to guard American commerce in the Caribbean against
in particular the French. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson sent her to the Mediterranean to
protect American ships and seamen from attack by the Barbary pirates. With Captain Edward
Preble in command, Constitution and other ships of the squadron bombarded Tripoli. A treaty of
peace was signed in June 1805 between the United States and Tripoli aboard Constitution.

After returning to the United States, the USS Constitution was named flagship of the North Atlantic
Squadron. In 1810, her new captain, Isaac Hull, took her to sea. Two years later she met and
defeated HMS Guerriere, the first in a grand succession of victories in the War of 1812.

It was during this ferocious battle that the seamen, astonished at how the British cannonballs were
bouncing off the Constitution's hull, cried out - "Her sides are made of iron!" Hence the
nickname,"Old Ironsides."

War service ended in 1815 for ironsides, the battle-scarred USS Constitution was laid up for almost
six years for extensive repairs, after which she went on two cruises to the Mediterranean.

In 1830 she was reported unseaworthy and condemned to be broken up. A poem by Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Sr., entitled "Old Ironsides," aroused such popular feeling that money was appropriated for
rebuilding her in 1833. In 1844, under the command of Captain "Mad Jack" Percival, she began an
epic around-the-world cruise and became the first American warship to circumnavigate the globe.

USS Constitution was recommissioned in 1931 for a coast-to-coast tour of ninety American cities
lasting until 1934 when she was returned to her place of honour in the Boston Harbour at
Charlestown. She rests there to this day as an enduring symbol of the document for which she is
named