Old Ironsides: The Story of USS Constitution; Text by Thomas P. Horgan; Foreword by John F. Kennedy; Introductio by Samuel Eliot Morison
Boston: Burdette & Co., 1963. Hardcover. 98, [8] pages: illustrations; 28 cm. White comb binding with rigid white illustrated cover. Title written in black on spine. Former owners' stamp on inside front cover. Includes index. The history of the USS Constitution, known as Old Ironsides. The three-masted wooden-hulled frigate of the U.S. Navy was launched in 1797 and is the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat. It was retired from active service in 1881 and designated a museum ship in 1907. In Very Good- Condition: cover is lightly soiled; pages are clean and solid. Very Good -. Item #011957
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