(Tribune News Service) — When the USS Constellation began leaking 3,000 gallons of water an hour more than two years ago, Chris Rowsom knew repairs were urgently needed. As a stopgap measure before ...

What’s the true story behind the USS Constellation?

Key Points and Summary - USS Constellation (CV-64), the second Kitty Hawk–class carrier, was a conventionally powered Cold War workhorse that bridged the era between Forrestal-class flattops and today ...

170 YEARS OLD. THERE’S NO CHANCE THAT SOMEBODY OR SOMETHING STILL ISN’T AROUND. KIND OF KEEPING AN EYE ON THE SHIP. IT’S PART OF THE SHIP’S HAUNTED HISTORY THAT STEPHANIE SMITH TELLS IS PART OF THE ...

The year is 1860. It is night off the coast of Africa. The wind is low and most of the sailors of the USS Constellation are below deck. They will not run down any slave smugglers in the lull. While ...

Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: The USS Constellation (CV-64), nicknamed “America’s Flagship,” was a Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier introduced in the early 1960s as part of the U.S. Navy’s ...

The USS Constellation?s hunt for slave-smugglers is the focus of a documentary airing on the History Channel this month. The ship?s crew freed 705 African men, women and children in 1860 when they ...

On April 12, the Navy held a symbolic keel-laying ceremony for the U.S.S. Constellation—the lead ship of a new class that will bring frigate-class warships back to the U.S. Navy after the service’s ...

THREE TWO ONE LITTLE RIP IT. ALL RIGHT. IT’S A GRAND OPENING THAT TOOK DECADES TO MAKE HAPPEN THE USS CONSTELLATION EDUCATION CENTER AND INNER HARBOR WATER TAXI TERMINAL ON PIER 1 AT THE INNER HARBOR ...

Baltimore’s Inner Harbor waterfront has a new look. The nearly 100-foot-tall masts that soared above the historic USS Constellation are gone, at least for now. Historic Ships in Baltimore, an ...

Andrew St. Pierre, left, a maritime educator at the Living Classrooms Foundation, helps warp the line as the USS Constellation is positioned at its Pier 1 berth in the Inner Harbor. The 1854 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands will flood onto the USS Constellation as part of Baltimore’s celebration of America’s 250th anniversary this summer, and ...