Constellation (Ship)

Dates

• Existence: 1854-

Biographical / Historical

The Constellation spent much of the American Civil War as a deterrent to Confederate cruisers and commerce raiders in the Mediterranean Sea. After the Civil War, she saw various duties such as carrying exhibits to the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris and famine relief stores in the 1879 Irish famine. In 1894 she became a training ship for the Naval Training Center in Newport, RI. Decommissioned in 1933, she was recommissioned as a national symbol in 1940 by President Franklin Roosevelt, and spent much of World War II as relief flagship for the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. She was moved to Baltimore in 1955, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963, and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. She is the last existing intact naval vessel from the American Civil War.

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