In 1830, the U.S. Navy built programs to scrap the forty four-gun frigate Constitution, the country’s most celebrated warship. Introduced in 1797, “Previous Ironsides” had earned her nickname throughout the War of 1812, defeating a number of fabled British vessels such as the HMS Guerièrre. However the war in general ended indecisively, from
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[22] Major products consisted of pine and oak, like southern Dwell oak which was Slice from Gascoigne Bluff and milled around St. Simons Island, Ga.[twenty] Enslaved staff were utilised to harvest the oak employed for the ship's building, and USS Structure Museum historian Carl Herzog stated that "the compelled labor of enslaved men and women was a
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