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could be the oldest commissioned warship on the globe continue to afloat. Nicknamed “Aged Ironsides,” she is right now berthed in Boston and is named “The usa’s Ship of Condition.” Her story illuminates much concerning the U.S. Navy throughout the nation’s first one hundred a long time.off Brazil on December 29. A British shot wrecked h

She was involved with a serious collision While using the English brig Self-confidence, chopping her in 50 %, which sank While using the lack of her captain. The surviving crew members had been carried again to The us, where by Structure was place in ordinary Yet again, this time at the Brooklyn Navy Property, in January 1851.[181]Now the oldest U.