A port bow view of the 44-gun sail frigate USS CONSTITUTION moored in the harbor. The ship is being prepared for its annual turnaround cruise. Each 4th of July the ship is towed into the harbor, a 21-gun salute to the nation is fired, then the ship is turned around and returned to its mooring. The CONSTITUTION, launched October 21, 1797, is the oldest ship remaining on the Navy list. The memorial destroyer CASSIN YOUNG (DD-793) is in the background
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Boston
State: Massachusetts (MA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 D. John Mccarthy
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
04/07/1992
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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