New Wind in Ship's Sails; Constellation Marks 150th Birthday With Annapolis Visit

The Washington Post | November 4, 2004| | Copyright

The USS Constellation was about 800 miles off the U.S. coast and bound for Europe when a ferocious Atlantic gale bore down, churning the sea until it was "boiling at the bows and breaking into sheets of spray that drove on board in clouds," wrote Cmdr. Caspar F. Goodrich.

It was the fall of 1892, and the Constellation was on its final transatlantic voyage. The sloop of war -- the last all-sail warship built for the U.S. Navy -- was almost 40 years old and not in pristine condition. But, Goodrich wrote, the Constellation was a "gallant craft."

"It was an anxious moment which I could never ...

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