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Our own SwirlyGrrl captured Old Ironsides in its new home for the next couple of years: Drydock for some restoration work.
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Outstanding photo Swirly.
By PeterGriffith5
Wed, 05/20/2015 - 8:44pm
Outstanding photo Swirly. Thanks
A picture is worth a thousand words
By EM Painter
Wed, 05/20/2015 - 11:23pm
or in this case 2 million
.
By EM Painter
Wed, 05/20/2015 - 11:24pm
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Fun fact
By merlinmurph
Thu, 05/21/2015 - 7:33am
This is the second oldest dry dock in operation today.
in the US or in the whole world?
By Ron Newman
Thu, 05/21/2015 - 8:57am
Good question
By merlinmurph
Thu, 05/21/2015 - 9:15am
Sorry, I should have included the rest of the statement.
From the Globe:
It looks like the oldest is in Norfolk, VA.
From Wikipedia:
Both?
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 05/21/2015 - 9:17am
This dry dock and another like it in Norfolk, VA were built around the same time. Loammi Baldwin, Jr. gets a lot of credit for figuring out some of the finer details with elegant solutions for this and its sibling that are still employed in modern systems. The one in Norfolk was used for repairs to the Delaware before it was fully completed in 1834, but both were first used in June, 1833.
Hard to tell which is "oldest" in that sense. Both have been enlarged, both are still in use!
The oldest working drydock is at Portsmouth, UK. It was built in 1495.
It's cool that this one was
By chaosjake
Thu, 05/21/2015 - 4:52pm
It's cool that this one was built specifically for the Constitution.
*her new home.
By gotdatwmd
Thu, 05/21/2015 - 9:46am
*her new home.
:-)
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 05/21/2015 - 9:53am
:-)
An unforgettable sight
By SalSal
Thu, 05/21/2015 - 12:04pm
I saw her sail into Marblehead Harbor in 1997, her bicentennial. She dwarfed the
headlands and everything around her. What a grand ship!
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