The sloop of war -- the last all-sail warship built for the U.S. Navy -- was almost 40 years old and not in pristine condition. But, Goodrich wrote, the Constellation was a "gallant craft." ...

The 1854 sloop-of-war is dwarfed by the 1200 ft.length of the dry dock. The ship returned to the Inner Harbor on December 19 after eight weeks in dry dock for repairs.

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A sloop of war, it was built at Virginia’s Gosport Navy Yard in 1854 to replace the old frigate Constellation, scrapped a year earlier. The new ship was the last the Navy built without a steam ...

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island’s official tall ship is set to become a tourist attraction in Virginia. A foundation in the waterfront city of Alexandria has purchased the 110-foot sloop-of ...

ALL ABOARD! The Tall Ship Providence, a 110-foot, 12-gun sloop of war, is a replica of the first ship authorized to serve in the Continental Navy and John Paul Jones' first American command.

When the sloop-of-war was decommissioned in 1955, it was the oldest ship in the U.S. Navy. The Constellation was relocated to the Inner Harbor in 1968, but with inadequate funding, the ship ...

On Oct. 4, 1855, a U.S. Navy sloop of war, the Decatur, sailed into Elliott Bay to defend Washington Territory against attacks by “Northern Indians.” By late January, a conflict, dubbed “The ...

For centuries the seas were ruled by "wooden ships and iron men." ... (The U.S. Navy’s last all-sail vessel, the sloop of war U.S.S. Constellation may be seen at Inner Harbor in Baltimore.

On June 19, 1864, the Union sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge laid in wait outside the French port of Cherbourg for the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama. The Confederate warship had wreaked havoc ...