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NEW FOR 2021!

Ported to OBJ from the model created by Erwin Welker for Microsoft's Flight Simulator X (FSX). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

USS Constution, also known as "Old Ironsides" due to her withstanding the heavy cannon fire of the British frigate HMS Guerriere in their famed battle during the War of 1812, is one of the oldest and most famous classic tall ships still with us today. She is not only the oldest commissioned warship in the United States Navy (USN) but also the oldest vessel of her type in the world that is still with us and still in fully operable condition, not to mention one of the oldest fully operable tall ships of any kind in the world. She was originally built during the 1790s to a modified traditional heavy frigate design, "being long on keel, narrow of beam, and mounting very heavy guns" (Wikipedia). with a reinforced hull that was more sturdy than the ones used by other navies at the time. This stood her in good stead in the aforementioned one-on-one battle with Guerriere mentioned above, during which sailors on both ships witnessed the British cannon fire bouncing harmlessly off of Constitution's reinforced hull. She took out the frigate HMS Java a month later but had to sit out most of the rest of the War of 1812 for repairs, returning just long enough for a trip to the West Indies to see action against British warships down there. Constitution also took part in the Quasi War of 1798, the First and Second Barbary Wars (before and after the War of 1812), and spent the rest of her active career protecting American interest in the Mediterranean. She was also used as a test ship for paddlewheel propulsion in 1820, which did not impress her captain and which were removed as quickly as possible on his orders once the test was over. She returned to the United States in 1828 for decommissioning and was placed in reserve at the time, given that she was close to the normal 10-15 year expected lifetime for a wooden-hulled ship at that time. In 1839, an erroneous report by the Boston Advertiser claimed that the USN was planning to scrap Constitution (they had actually conducted a study as to how much it was going to cost to fully restore her for service), and the new story caused a national outcry against the idea. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote his famed poem "Old Ironsides" to protest this, and the public uproar became such that USN had little choice but to authorize her reconstruction. She returned to service in 1835 and remained in service until 1855, when she was reassigned as the prime training ship for the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. She remained a training ship until 1870, when her condition had again become so bad that she was taken out of service, and beginning in 1873 underwent a major overhaul and rebuilding that was finished in time for the American Centennial celebration in 1876. She sailed to France to take part in the Paris Exposition of 1878 and served a few more years as a USN training ship. but by 1897 had been laid up again due to poor quality work done during her 1870s restoration. Another public furor erupted in 1905 when the proposal was floated that Constitution be taken out to sea and sunk as a target ship, and in 1906 an official act by the U.S. Congress began the process of having her fully restored and converted into a museum ship. It wasn't finished until 1931. when the rebuilt Constitution embarked on a three-year tour of United States ports before winding up in Boston in 1934 to begin her new role as a museum ship. She has been one ever since, save for period rebuilds and restorations (wood rots over time and has to be replaced). She was the lead ship in the parade of tall ships during American Bicentennial celebration in 1976, during which she fired her main guns for the first time in a century, and Constitution celebrated her 200th birthday by setting sail and riding with the wind for the first time in 116 years. Not only is Constitution considered both a national treasure and a world heritage treasure, she remains to this day a fully commissioned warship (the oldest one) in the United States Navy. To find out more about the historic heavy frigate USS Constitution, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cons…

This is a straight port with no changes by me but one glitch I must report. I lost part of the rigging during the porting process, as it came unattached and I couldn't figure out where to properly reattach it. This was part of the inner rigging between the masts, so I hope its absence isn't too noticeable save by those who know their sailing ships. I apologize to Mr. Welker in advance for a less than perfect port.

I note in passing that the bottom of the hull is supposed to be green. That's because it's sheathed in copper (a common practice at the time), which oxidizes and turns green from prolonged submersion in seawater.

This is no my model. All I did was port it to OBJ for you, as well as having to report the one porting glitch I described above. Please credit Erwin Welker as the original creator if you use this in any of your own 3D projects. You do not have to credit me for my part.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

NOTE - You can also use this to represent other USN heavy sail frigates (Congress, etc.) from the first half of the 1800s, as well as other similar heavy sail frigates of the era in other world navies with the appropriate texture changes or use of your own custom-made textures.

Description

NEW FOR 2021!

Ported to OBJ from the model created by Erwin Welker for Microsoft's Flight Simulator X (FSX). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

USS Constution, also known as "Old Ironsides" due to her withstanding the heavy cannon fire of the British frigate HMS Guerriere in their famed battle during the War of 1812, is one of the oldest and most famous classic tall ships still with us today. She is not only the oldest commissioned warship in the United States Navy (USN) but also the oldest vessel of her type in the world that is still with us and still in fully operable condition, not to mention one of the oldest fully operable tall ships of any kind in the world. She was originally built during the 1790s to a modified traditional heavy frigate design, "being long on keel, narrow of beam, and mounting very heavy guns" (Wikipedia). with a reinforced hull that was more sturdy than the ones used by other navies at the time. This stood her in good stead in the aforementioned one-on-one battle with Guerriere mentioned above, during which sailors on both ships witnessed the British cannon fire bouncing harmlessly off of Constitution's reinforced hull. She took out the frigate HMS Java a month later but had to sit out most of the rest of the War of 1812 for repairs, returning just long enough for a trip to the West Indies to see action against British warships down there. Constitution also took part in the Quasi War of 1798, the First and Second Barbary Wars (before and after the War of 1812), and spent the rest of her active career protecting American interest in the Mediterranean. She was also used as a test ship for paddlewheel propulsion in 1820, which did not impress her captain and which were removed as quickly as possible on his orders once the test was over. She returned to the United States in 1828 for decommissioning and was placed in reserve at the time, given that she was close to the normal 10-15 year expected lifetime for a wooden-hulled ship at that time. In 1839, an erroneous report by the Boston Advertiser claimed that the USN was planning to scrap Constitution (they had actually conducted a study as to how much it was going to cost to fully restore her for service), and the new story caused a national outcry against the idea. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote his famed poem "Old Ironsides" to protest this, and the public uproar became such that USN had little choice but to authorize her reconstruction. She returned to service in 1835 and remained in service until 1855, when she was reassigned as the prime training ship for the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. She remained a training ship until 1870, when her condition had again become so bad that she was taken out of service, and beginning in 1873 underwent a major overhaul and rebuilding that was finished in time for the American Centennial celebration in 1876. She sailed to France to take part in the Paris Exposition of 1878 and served a few more years as a USN training ship. but by 1897 had been laid up again due to poor quality work done during her 1870s restoration. Another public furor erupted in 1905 when the proposal was floated that Constitution be taken out to sea and sunk as a target ship, and in 1906 an official act by the U.S. Congress began the process of having her fully restored and converted into a museum ship. It wasn't finished until 1931. when the rebuilt Constitution embarked on a three-year tour of United States ports before winding up in Boston in 1934 to begin her new role as a museum ship. She has been one ever since, save for period rebuilds and restorations (wood rots over time and has to be replaced). She was the lead ship in the parade of tall ships during American Bicentennial celebration in 1976, during which she fired her main guns for the first time in a century, and Constitution celebrated her 200th birthday by setting sail and riding with the wind for the first time in 116 years. Not only is Constitution considered both a national treasure and a world heritage treasure, she remains to this day a fully commissioned warship (the oldest one) in the United States Navy. To find out more about the historic heavy frigate USS Constitution, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cons…

This is a straight port with no changes by me but one glitch I must report. I lost part of the rigging during the porting process, as it came unattached and I couldn't figure out where to properly reattach it. This was part of the inner rigging between the masts, so I hope its absence isn't too noticeable save by those who know their sailing ships. I apologize to Mr. Welker in advance for a less than perfect port.

I note in passing that the bottom of the hull is supposed to be green. That's because it's sheathed in copper (a common practice at the time), which oxidizes and turns green from prolonged submersion in seawater.

This is no my model. All I did was port it to OBJ for you, as well as having to report the one porting glitch I described above. Please credit Erwin Welker as the original creator if you use this in any of your own 3D projects. You do not have to credit me for my part.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

NOTE - You can also use this to represent other USN heavy sail frigates (Congress, etc.) from the first half of the 1800s, as well as other similar heavy sail frigates of the era in other world navies with the appropriate texture changes or use of your own custom-made textures.