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...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...
Throughout the frost-biting season, the varsity sailing team has been constantly runner-up to victory, but has emerged with honors only twice. This weekend however, the Crimson skippers are favored to win the Northeastern collegiate Sloop Championship and perhaps a little bit more...
Carter Ford and a three-man crew won all the races at the Coast Guard Academy Saturday to quality for the finals in the NEISA sloop Championships. Although disqualified after a first-race win, Ford skippered his 34-ft. Raven to victory in the next five heats to carry the day with 35 points...