He saw images - The deck of the frigate Constitution on which he'd sailed when he was still a boy.

Dockside at the Charlestown Navy Yard, you can visit "Old Ironsides," the frigate Constitution, commissioned in 1797 and never decommissioned.

On 19 August 1812 Guerriere, under Captain James Richard Dacres, sighted the American frigate Constitution, under Isaac Hull.

He served first in the Argus under Captain Trippe, and was attached later to the frigate Constitution, and participated in all her battles.

The grand old frigate Constitution of 1796, up in Boston Harbor, will go faster.

On 23 December 1803, after a quiet interval of cruising, Enterprise joined with frigate Constitution to capture the Tripolitan ketch Mastico.

In December 1812, as senior Lieutenant of the frigate HMS Java, he distinguished himself in the battle between that ship and the American frigate Constitution.

Indeed, reading "Annapolis" is a relatively painless way to absorb more than 200 years of United States naval history, from the frigate Constitution to modern nuclear submarines.

During the Quasi-War with France, he made his first cruise in the frigate Constitution and later served in the schooner Experiment.

Mark Benenson's invocation of the superiority of the sailing speed of the "frigate Constitution of 1796" overlooks the fact that (scandalously) her restoration did not include sails.