USS Constellation is a sloop-of-war and the second United States Navy ship to carry this famous name. USS Constellation is the last sail-only warship designed and built by the U.S. Navy. She is also the last Civil War vessel afloat. Despite being a single-gundeck "sloop", she is actually larger than her frigate namesake, and more powerfully armed with fewer but much more potent shell-firing guns.

Constellation's first duty assignment was interdicting the slave trade off the coast of Africa. She captured two slavers and released the imprisoned slaves. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Constellation made the first Union Navy capture (The slaver Triton in coastal waters off Africa.) She also served with Farragut's Gulf Blockading Squadron.

After the war Constellation saw various duties, carrying famine relief stores to Ireland and carrying precious American works of art to the Paris Exposition of 1895. She was used extensively as a training ship for Naval Academy midshipmen.

During World War II, Constellation served as relief flagship for the Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet.

USS Constellation is a National Historic Landmark. A nine million dollar restoration project was completed in 1999. Today she brings back glorious memories to tens of thousands of tourists that visit her each year in Baltimore.

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This USS Constellation masterpiece features:

• Scratch-built

• Double plank-on-frame

• All parts are wooden or metal

• Masterly painted

• Realistic old-looking thin sails

• Copper-plated bottom: individual copper pieces that were weathered unevenly to create a realistic look (not a large piece of metal with faked lines.)

• Full number of boats 

• Exact beautiful stern gallery that no other models can match

• Wooden base

   36" long x 31" tall     $950      s&h $130

To add 110v light feature to the models:  $200  
(Cord can be unplugged from base for displaying without light)

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