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minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·15 hours agoThe USS Constitution is still fully crewed, floats, and occasionally fires a few cannon shots. Keeping history around isn’t weird. Though I do think it should be contextualized.
minus-squaredjdarren@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 hours agoAh, I’m mostly joking. Victory is a really cool museum, almost as cool as the wreck of the Mary Rose that’s in displayed in a building next to her.
minus-squareGraniteM@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·13 hours ago The Constitution is also the only ship in the current U.S. fleet to have sunk an enemy vessel, having defeated and burnt HMS Java in 1813. Her nearest competition was decommissioned in 2015.
minus-squareHearTwoTalk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·14 hours agoSeeing her out of her slip is kind of weird. She was accompanied on either side by tug boats, like an elderly person escorted by nurses or family members fearful they may fall over.
minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 hours agoUS Navy sails the Constitution up to a Russian submarine. Fires full broadside. Refuses to elaborate. Leaves.
The USS Constitution is still fully crewed, floats, and occasionally fires a few cannon shots.
Keeping history around isn’t weird. Though I do think it should be contextualized.
Ah, I’m mostly joking. Victory is a really cool museum, almost as cool as the wreck of the Mary Rose that’s in displayed in a building next to her.
Her nearest competition was decommissioned in 2015.
Seeing her out of her slip is kind of weird. She was accompanied on either side by tug boats, like an elderly person escorted by nurses or family members fearful they may fall over.
US Navy sails the Constitution up to a Russian submarine.
Fires full broadside.
Refuses to elaborate.
Leaves.