old ironsides

     

Oliver Wendell Holmes began this poem, "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high"

Trivia about old ironsides

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of this ship, "Oh better that her shattered hulk should sink beneath the wave"
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of the U.S.S. Constitution.) The material that gave the U.S.S. Constitution this famous nickname is live oak from Georgia
  • Preparations for war included adding ships like the USS Constitution, nicknamed this in the War of 1812
  • Saved by Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem about it, it's been refurbished several times & sailed again in 1997

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