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could be the oldest commissioned warship on the globe still afloat. Nicknamed “Aged Ironsides,” she's now berthed in Boston and is named “The us’s Ship of Condition.” Her story illuminates A lot concerning the U.S. Navy in the course of the country’s very first 100 decades.As Constitution settled in all over again with the Academy, a nu

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