| Mac1638 | 09 Jul 2015 5:05 a.m. PST |
HMS Trincomalee is the oldest warship afloat for the next 2 years, while the USS Constitution is in dry dock. She will be the oldest warship afloat in her bicentenary year 2017 She is one of 47 Leda class Frigate built between 1800 and 1830. |
| Feet up now | 09 Jul 2015 5:58 a.m. PST |
Love the old warships and even the merchant ones like the Cuttysark have a beauty and majesty about them.
Best I have seen so far in the flesh is the HMS Victory .
Where will the USS constitution be after dry dock? , would love to try and visit her too. |
| Royal Air Force | 09 Jul 2015 6:06 a.m. PST |
She's in the dock in Boston, right next to her normal berth |
| Mac1638 | 09 Jul 2015 7:17 a.m. PST |
The USS Constitution is to be refloated in 2017. |
| Winston Smith | 09 Jul 2015 7:53 a.m. PST |
Like the US Constitution, the USS Constitution is now considered a charming relic, kept alive mainly for the tourist trade. Neither is really fit for the modern age. So they say. |
 Saber6   | 09 Jul 2015 8:28 a.m. PST |
Some how I can see the USS Constitution doing ASW work. |
| rmaker | 09 Jul 2015 9:20 a.m. PST |
Some how I can see the USS Constitution doing ASW work. Well, she was Tenth Fleet (Atlantic ASW) flagship during WW2. |
| Oddball | 09 Jul 2015 9:21 a.m. PST |
Nobody seems to pay attention to the US Constitution anymore, but I do like the USS Constitution. |
| Volunteer | 09 Jul 2015 10:24 a.m. PST |
Wait a minute! Isn't Victory afloat? She was launched in 1765. |
| DeRuyter | 09 Jul 2015 10:29 a.m. PST |
Victory is older but she is in permanent dry dock. |
| JSchutt | 09 Jul 2015 2:41 p.m. PST |
I thought it was my mother-in-law…. |
| J Womack 94 | 09 Jul 2015 3:50 p.m. PST |
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| Khusrau | 09 Jul 2015 7:47 p.m. PST |
The Unicorn in Dundee is 1824, so close to Trincomalee. |
| Mac1638 | 10 Jul 2015 2:20 a.m. PST |
The Unicorn is a sister to Trincomalee, she never sailed. |
| Prince of Derekness | 10 Jul 2015 3:59 a.m. PST |
She did float about in the Tay for a good few years as a floating prison for wayward youth.
I remember my granny threatening me with it as a lad. |
| Mallen | 10 Jul 2015 10:49 a.m. PST |
The Constellation is a "rebuild" of the 38 gun Frigate into a 20 gun Corvette after 1812. I am not sure how much of that factors. That said the Constitution is probably about 12% original. Those plastic 24s annoy me in a very irratonal way. |
| Rockatansky | 10 Jul 2015 12:17 p.m. PST |
it is only about 12% original but then if it wasnt it wouldnt be here for us to see most likely. its not much different than restoring an old car. at some point you have to decide when it ceases to be that car anymore. is it more valuable and desirable as a pile of rust in the woods because its all original? or is it ok to put all new body panels and interior into it? personally i'm not too bothered by the upkeep of the ship even if it involves some more modern touches because if i get onto it i dont think the ship feels any less historic. i think its better to make some sacrifices there in order for it to be something that people can see and touch many years into the future as opposed to being something that only exists in pictures on the internet or in books. l'hermione is all brand new and yet that impacted me much more than any paintings i could look at of the original. not to mention i do construction on beach houses. i know what the atlantic ocean does to wood. i see it every day. i look at the constitution with the attitude of thats what it would look like anyway had it been kept in constant service for 200 years. it obviously wouldnt be all original |
