Fun fact about th USS Constitution, the US Navy maintains an entire white oak forest in Indiana just to use in the maintenance of this one ship.
That actually is a very fun fact.
It’s also a trained forest, essentially using bonsai style techniques to form specific branch points and curves that are needed for specific timbers.
It’s cooler in Fallout 4. It’s crewed by robots and flies.
Also real life is a downer. Was super cramped, don’t know how they fit 100 dudes in that thing.
Also, since our taxes are keeping it floatable, would it kill them to bring it into armament parity? Swap out the guns with missile tubes, maybe an icbm tower in one of the masts?
Are M134 chaser guns too much to ask for?
CIWS on that baby or bust
Pfft that’s nothing. HMAS Melbourne was the only Australian ship to sink two friendly ships in peacetime 💪
She was just that eager to spill blood.
Metal as fuck
That looks rad!
I have a 3ft model of the constitution in a box that I’ve been meaning to put together for about 10 years now… but cats.
Maybe someday I’ll have a spot to put it together in peace.
I got a china cabinet at an estate sale and have been putting some Lego sets in there and its been cat proof……… so far
You could always go for a glass/acrylic case over it but that’d probably be prohibitively expensive
that one unit in Civilization you forgot about and never upgraded in 500 years
You don’t intentionally keep a unit museum? You’ll see me later Game pretty regularly with my frigate flagship followed by two privateers surrounded by modern naval units. It’s kinda fun to dunk on the PC with a fuckin broadside.
Cool ship, took a tour last year
I absolutely love tall ships.
I’d love to find a quality model to assemble over a weekend, forget on a shelf for two months, then spend a week painting.
I have a half finished model I started during covid I really need to finish off
Oldest American naval warship still afloat…
Or any nation as far as sources I have list.
Although HMS victory is the oldest naval vessel in comission, she’s got 3 decades on the old girl
Not afloat though
Do you realize the if they are in comission all that they need to do is put it on whater and then constitution stops being the oldest afloat.
So if I can take it’s title that easy maybe it doesn’t deserve it idk
Victory would sink if put on the sea.
Over time, repairs have been carried out to maintain her appearance, but not her seaworthyness. In many places, soft wood has replaced hardwood and no effort has been made to ensure she is structurally sound or water tight.Bro wtf are you talking about, the USS constitution is towed by tugboats in it 1 yearly journey…it’s little more then the victory tbh.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/massachusetts-uss-constitution/index.html
Victory would likely sink in the dry dock before the tug could take her anywhere. There has been no effort made to make her float. Hull repairs done over the last few decades have not been made water tight.
It wouldn’t constitution had never been dry docked as a matter of long term storage, victory hasn’t seen water in a hundred years (April 8 1925) and no you cannot easily just drop her back in the water and expect her to float. That said constitution could sail today if it were advantageous to do so, last time she sailed in her own power was July 21 1997.
What’s the shitter look like?
None to speak of. Poop was slammed off the sides.
Both wrong and right
https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2014/01/18/head-lines/
Hilarious title, ‘Head Lines’
It was what now?
Shit
So…if someone found a nail that was a part of Theseus’ ship, and rebuilt it around the nail, would it become the oldest ship afloat?
So old it’s still grayscale
Does it still sail, tough? I know the French analog, the Hermione, does.
Yes, at least once, maybe twice a year it sails. Meanwhile it’s docked at its own museum the rest of the year - the ship itself is free, but they charge for the museum
I’m guessing she’s having some work done to the rigging? Not a yard on her.
![[OC] The USS Constitution, the oldest naval warship still afloat.](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d5c9b27d-0ddf-45b3-a533-498edc45252a.jpeg){kind=link}