Constellation

Posted by F.F. on Sunday 11th of May 2025 13:34

@ Yücel Kaya:

Links are banned: sorry.

You can try wikipedia in English: on its webpage about the «USS Constellation (1797)», you'll find a plan of the hull of that frigate, seen from the bow and from the stern (one half from the bow, one half from the stern; 759 × 662 pixels, 95 kb), but with nothing else.

You can also find it by asking: «USSConstellationUSSCongressHull1795 jpg».

Or you can ask, on «commons wikipedia», «Fox USSconstellation drawing jpg».
Thus you'll find the same plan, in lower resolution (600 × 424 pixels, 31 kb).

Also one of the first other results on tour web search engine will seemingly be a plan showing the hull of the Constellation either seen from the bow and the stern, from the side, and from the bottom (1740 × 1237 pixels, 502 kb). I'm not sure where it comes from, and don’t know how accurate it is.

Posted by Yücel Kaya on Wednesday 7th of May 2025 09:22

Hello.my Name is Yücel Kaya from Turkey...
I am a model ship builder and I am currently working on building a US Constellation Frigate 1797. I need the plans for the model and I hope you can help me. Best regards

Posted by Barry J. Fox on Friday 5th of November 2021 18:47

Spencer Tucker, in his "Arming the Fleet: U.S. Navy ordnance in the Muzzle-Loading Era," noted that the U.S.S. Constellation was armed with "short" 24# for her battle with L'Insurgente. I've always considered these to be a cross between a long gun and a carronade. The Danes, Swedes, and Russians all used them. I've seen a few things about the U.S. Navy using Columbiads during this period. That said, they were designed as "shell" guns, so I doubt that Constellation's 24#s were any more than lighter 24# guns, with probably less range. Obviously, after switching to 18# guns, for her next fight, she carried ten 24# carronades as well, whereas she had 12# long guns for secondary armament before.

Posted by Brian Stephens on Monday 14th of April 2014 17:42

Providence Gazette July 3, 1813
BATTLE OF THE GUN-BOATS IN HAMPTON ROADS.
Letter from Camp near Armated, Norfolk, June 21
I take up my pen to inform you of an action that took place in Hampton Roads yesterday morning, between our gun-boats at this place and a British frigate. On Saturday tow frigates and a 74 came into the Roads, one frigate within 8 or 10 miles of this place and the other frigate within 3 miles of her, and the 74 about the same distance below the last and there anchored. On Saturday night, 14 gun-boats left this place manned by the Constellation's crew, for the purpose of driving them from their moorings; the wind was calm, and everything in favour of our flotilla; they arrived within gun shot of the highest frigate and commenced action at reveille, at about 3 1/2 hours when the wind springing up, obliged our boats to retire, as the frigate and 74 below had come up to her assistance, after completely silencing her, and having torn her almost to pieces, as it appears by the report of those that saw the action from Sewal Point. After the action the men on board the frigate were seen on every part of the ship, taking in sails and bending new ones and on the sides plugging up shot holes having received many shot holes below the water. There are now in the Roads 8 ships of the line, and from 10 to 12 frigates. There is 30 sail in the Bay and Roads. The killed and wounded on board the gun-boats were one filled and three wounded.