As early as 1991, Commander David Cashman experienced proposed that Constitution should really sail to celebrate her 200th anniversary in 1997 instead of staying towed. The proposal was authorised, nevertheless it absolutely was regarded as a sizable enterprise considering that she experienced not sailed in over one hundred yrs.off Brazil on Decem

But a single month afterwards, she satisfied with one of them again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the very first shot on the legendary struggle; twenty minutes later, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly weakened that she wasn't value towing to port.As Constitution settled in yet again for the Academy, a series of updates