The 44-Gun Frigate USS Constitution 'Old Ironsides' (Anatomy of The Ship)

by Karl Heinz Marquardt

The Constitution was one of the US Navy's first six original frigates, ordered as a counter to the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean. Fast and heavily built, she was nominally rated as a 44 but mounted thirty 24-pdr and twenty-two 12-pdr cannon. Her most famous encounter, after which she became nicknamed 'Old Ironsides' due to British shot being seen bouncing off her hull, involved HMS Guerriere, which she smashed; the same treatment was meted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472832582
• ISBN13: 9781472832580
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.7" x 0.6" x 10.3"