As early as 1991, Commander David Cashman experienced suggested that Constitution must sail to rejoice her 200th anniversary in 1997 as an alternative to becoming towed. The proposal was authorised, while it had been thought to be a large endeavor considering that she experienced not sailed in in excess of 100 several years.Commemorative stamp, 15

But one particular month afterwards, she satisfied with one of these all over again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the first shot from the famous battle; twenty minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly damaged that she was not really worth towing to port.The earliest regarded photograph of Structure, going t