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Badger, Oscar Charles, Cmdre USN(Ret).
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Sail Frigate:
Built at Hartt's Shipyard, Boston, MA.
Launched, 21 October 1797
Commissioned USS Constitution, 22 July 1798, Commodore Samuel Nicholson, in command
Decommissioned and placed in ordinary, circa 1800, at Boston, MA.
Recommissioned, 1803
Decommissioned in November 1807
Recommissioned in August 1809
Decommissioned and placed in ordinary in 1815, at Boston, MA.
Recommissioned in May 1821
Decommissioned in 1830
Recommissioned in 1835
Decommissioned in 1851
Recommissioned in 1852
Decommissioned in 1855
Recommissioned in 1860
Decommissioned in 1871
Recommissioned in July 1877
Decommissioned in 1884
Renamed Old Constitution, 1 December 1917
Name restored, 24 July 1925
Recommissioned, 1 July 1931,
Decommissioned, 8 June 1934
Recommissioned, 24 August 1940
Classified Miscellaneous Unclassified (IX-21), 8 January 1941
Classification IX withdrawn 2 September 1975 by order of the Secretary of the Navy
On 28 October 2009 President Obama signed a law making USS Constitution the nation's "ship of state," in effect, a national flagship.
Other Memories USS CONSTITUTION's last cruise in foreign waters. She carries the American exhibits for the world-wide Paris Exposition, docking in Le Havre, France. She stays in Le Havre for nine months waiting to carry the exhibits back to the U.S. 1879 January 16 - While returning from France, she runs aground beneath the White Cliffs of Dover, England. A British tug eventually pulls her free. Back to Historical Events List 1879: May 24 - Arrives in New York.
