Word: sloops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...records of repair dated 1853 through 1855 state that the Constellation has the original keel, frames from six foot upward from the keel, ballast, and stem. It does state that the old vessel was taken down to bare structure and rebuilt as a sloop of 24 guns. It was pointed out to me that in 1852 the ship was placed in drydock to check her underside and that it was found that a false keel should have been made as her old keel was badly warped or bogged. I found that in July and August of 1853 the false keel...
...Democratic Convention, she had a stockade fence erected around her Hyannisport home, as much to fence out the neighboring Kennedy small fry and animals as the prying public. The proof that she had won her intramural war of independence was evident on a recent cruise aboard Jack's sloop Victura, when Jack and the Radziwills sat with her in the stern, while she passed around oeufs en gelee and vin rosé from her hamper, and her Kennedy in-laws sprawled in the bow and lunched on peanut butter sandwiches and Cokes from a picnic basket...
...carrier is the third vessel to bear the name. The original Constellation, a 36-gun frigate, the Navy's oldest ship, is now a museum piece at Fort McHenry, Baltimore. Her namesake, a sloop of war, was built in 1855-although some historians insist that this was the original ship rebuilt and restored. Another Constellation, scheduled to be a battle cruiser, was scrapped after her keel was laid, as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. * On March 19, 1945, in the Inland Sea, the flag carrier Franklin was hit by two Japanese bombs, engulfed in flames...
...dinghies for practice sessions, the Crimson skippers brought in four first, a second, three thirds, a fifth and a sixth. They won some they really should have lost and lost some they could have won, but Carter Ford and crew capped the season by winning the New England Intercollegiate Sloop Championship...
Ford, Mike Horn, George Pring, and John Kimball swept through the NEISA Sloop eliminations earlier in the season without losing a race. At the finals, however, they bungled around for a whole day, then clicked on the next to take the White Trophy from B.U. in a tie-breaking match race in the early evening...