[U.S.S. Constitution]: [Warrington, Lewis, among others]:

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[GROUP OF NINE MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS RELATED TO REPAIRS FOR THE U.S.S. CONSTITUTION ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19th CENTURY, INCLUDING CONDITION REPORTS, ESTIMATES, AND ITEMIZED ... A detailed and revealing group of manuscripts related to various repairs made to the U.S.S. Constitution, and striking evidence of the great cost and effort which has been expended maintaining the world's oldest commissioned naval ship still at sea. The U.S.S. Constitution was one of one of six ships authorized by the Naval Act of 1794, which officially began the United States Navy. Launched in 1797, she saw service in the Quasi-War, the First Barbary War, and the War of 1812. Already a long-lived vessel and an icon of the American Navy, she continued to serve as the flagship of the Mediterranean and African squadrons, performed a circumnavigation in the mid-1840s, and was removed to New York City for safety during the Civil War. Each of these documents is connected to one of four large-scale refits carried out on the Constitution: in 1821, following her service in the War of 1812; in 1829-30 (inspiring Holmes's famous poem "Old Ironsides"); in 1839, prior to patrol duty in South America; and 1844, just before her voyage around the world.The earliest document here is the only one related to the U.S.S. Constitution's 1821 repairs, being a large folding table titled "Statement shewing the cost of Repairing & Equipping and of Stores furnished to U.S. Frigate Constitution, the Repair

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