Word: mastless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frigate Constellation, the U.S. Navy's oldest ship, celebrated its 150th birthday. Tied up at a Boston Navy Yard dock next to the U.S.S. Constitution (which was saved from destruction in 1830 by Oliver Wendell Holmes's impassioned "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!"), the Constellation was mastless, and badly in need of a "complete rebuilding." The Navy hoped that "patriotic societies" would come to her rescue...
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