USS CONSTELLATION
From Frigate to Sloop of War

NEW copy. (Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 2003). First Printing. Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. Tables, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, 367 pages.

Built in Baltimore in 1797 under orders from President George Washington, USS Constellation is one of America's first warships, and according to this new study, it remains the nation's oldest surviving warship. With this book, wooden-shipbuilding authority Geoffrey M. Footner believes he has put to rest a decades-old controversy among naval historians, the U.S. Navy, local governments, and various historic ship foundations. He argues that though greatly modified since it was built by David Stodder, the ship now berthed in Baltimore's Inner Harbor is indeed the original Constellation. His well-documented study offers what many believe to be the final word on Constellation's provenance.

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