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Old Ironsides: America’s iconic frigate, defied enemies and time itself.
The 44-Gun Frigate USS Constitution 'Old Ironsides'
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128 pages
- Release Date
31 December 2017
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Summary
Old Ironsides: Anatomy of the USS Constitution
The Constitution was one of the US Navy’s first six original frigates, ordered as a counter to the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean.
Fast and heavily built, she was nominally rated as a 44 but mounted thirty 24-pdr and twenty-two 12-pdr cannon. Her most famous encounter, after which she became nicknamed ‘Old Ironsides’ due to British shot being seen bouncing off her hull, involved HMS Guerriere, which she s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472832580 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472832582 |
| Series: | Anatomy of The Ship |
| Author: | Karl Heinz Marquardt |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Osprey Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 2017 |
| Weight: | 747g |
| Dimensions: | 242mm x 262mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Karl Heinz Marquardt
Karl Heinz Marquardt is an internationally acclaimed draughtsman. He is also the author of two other Anatomy of the Ship volumes, on Captain Cook’s Endeavour and Darwin’s Beagle.
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