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USS Constitution
USS
Constitution
is a wooden-
hulled
, three-
masted
heavy
frigate
of the
United States Navy
, named by President
George Washington
after the
Constitution of the United States of America
. Launched in 1797,
Constitution
was one of
six original frigates
authorized for construction by the
Naval Act of 1794
and the third constructed.
Joshua Humphreys
designed the frigates to be the young Navy's
capital ships
, and so
Constitution
and her sisters were larger and more heavily armed and built than standard frigates of the period.
Constitution
was built in the North End of
Boston
,
Massachusetts
, at
Edmund Hartt
's shipyard. Her first duties with the newly formed U.S. Navy were to provide protection for American merchant shipping during the
Quasi-War
with France and to defeat the
Barbary pirates
in the
First Barbary War
.
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