Battle-Scarred "Old Ironsides' 



Peacefully floating at her 

 dock the famous old frig- 

 ate Constitution, once a 

 dreadnought of the seas, 

 presents a striking con- 

 trast to the grim battle- 

 ships of the present which 

 rest near her. One of the 

 most remarkable varia- 

 tions between the new 

 and the old fighting ships 

 is the fact that the shell 

 fired by one of our super- 

 dreadnoughts weighs prac- 

 tically as much as the 

 biggest gun carried on 

 the frigate Constitution 



The teeth of Old Ironsides which helped win thirty-nine battles. The ship has been re-rigged 

 and refitted just as she was in her fiery days of a century ago. She is spending her old age 

 at the Charlestown Navy Yard, in Boston. Her reputation was made in the war of 1812 



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