The Launching of the USS Constellation Reported in New York Newspaper, 1797

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The Herald; A Gazette for the Country. New York: Hopkins & Co. Printers, September 13, 1797. Vol. IV, No. 338. 4 pp. 12.75 x 18.75 in.

This issue contains an inside page, half column of text describing in great detail the launching of the US Navy warship USS Constellation in Baltimore, MD. The USS Constellation was a 38-gun frigate, one of the "Six Original Frigates" authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794. The first US Navy vessel to put to sea and the first to engage and defeat an enemy vessel, she was a frigate of great renown that was built under the direction of Colonel David Stodder at his naval shipyard on Harris Creek in Baltimore's Fells Point maritime community. The columnist writes of the builder that, "no man, on a similar occasion ever acquitted himself with more honor and ability, than did major David Stodder."

Launching on September 7, 1797, just as the United States entered the Quasi-War with the revolutionary French Republic, the frigate created quite the spectacle. As the columnist writes of the event, "The novelty of the scene, (she being the first frigate ever built at this port) drew forth an immense concourse of citizens, of both sexes, and of all ages...the number...was never equalled on any occasion, in this place."

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Some brittleness and separation at edges and creases.
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