Newport, RHODE ISLAND - USS Constellation at Wharf & Drill Field - 1948 For Sale

Newport, RHODE ISLAND - USS Constellation at Wharf & Drill Field - 1948: The USS Constellation, constructed in 1854, is a sloop-of-war/corvette and the second United States Navy ship to carry the name. According to the U.S. Naval Registry the original frigate was disassembled on 25 June 1853 in Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, Virginia, and the sloop-of-war/corvette was constructed in the same yard using material salvaged from the earlier ship. Constellation is the last sail-only warship designed and built by the Navy. Despite being a single-gundeck \"sloop,\" she is actually larger than her frigate namesake, and more powerfully armed with fewer but much more potent shell-firing guns. The sloop was launched on 26 August 1854 and commissioned on 28 July 1855 with Captain Charles H. Bell in command. From 1855–1858 Constellation performed largely diplomatic duties as part of the U.S. Mediterranean Squadron. She was flagship of the African Squadron from 1859–1861. In this period she took part in African Slave Trade Patrol operations to disrupt the Atlantic slave trade. The ship interdicted three slave ships and released the imprisoned Africans. After the Civil War, Constellation saw various duties such as carrying exhibits to the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris and famine relief stores in the 1879 Irish famine.[4] She also spent a number of years as a receiving ship (floating naval barracks). After being used as a practice ship for Naval Academy midshipmen, Constellation became a training ship in 1894 for the Naval Training Center in Newport, Rhode Island, where she helped train more than 60,000 recruits during World War I. Decommissioned in 1933, Constellation was recommissioned as a national symbol in 1940 by President Franklin Roosevelt; by this time the ship had become widely confused with her famous predecessor of 1797. She spent much of the Second World War as relief (i.e. reserve) flagship for the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, but spent the first six months of 1942 as the flagship for Ernest J. King and Vice Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll. She was taken to her permanent berth – Constellation Dock, Inner Harbor at Pier 1, 301 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland and designated a National Historic Landmark on 23 May 1963. This Linen Era postcard, mailed in 1948, is in good condition. Genuine Curteich-Chicago \"CT Art Colortone\". No. 6A-H1487. H.S. Settle. Newport, RI. This Linen Era postcard, mailed in 1948, is in good condition. Genuine Curteich-Chicago \"CT Art Colortone\". No. 6A-H1487. H.S. Settle. Newport, RI.