The 44-Gun Frigate USS Constitution 'Old Ironsides'
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The 44Gun Frigate USS Constitution Old Ironsides\nby Karl Heinz Marquardt\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 6\u20137 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Karl Heinz Marquardt\nTitle: The 44Gun Frigate USS Constitution Old Ironsides\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Ships and boats: general interest\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781472832580\nISBN-10: 1472832582\nRRP: \u00A325.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe 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 Iro.
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