{"id":6166,"date":"2026-07-22T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6166"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:19:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:19:59","slug":"uss-constitution-began-its-maiden-voyage-in-1798","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6166","title":{"rendered":"USS Constitution Began its Maiden Voyage in 1798"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/2f\/USS_Constitution_underway%2C_August_19%2C_2012_by_Castle_Island_cropped.jpg\/255px-USS_Constitution_underway%2C_August_19%2C_2012_by_Castle_Island_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">USS Constitution<br \/>Courtesy of Hunter Stires<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>USS Constitution <\/i>began\u00a0its maiden voyage in 1798<\/strong>. Nicknamed <i>Old Ironsides<\/i>, the three-masted, wooden ship was named by President George Washington. She was most active in the War of 1812, and in 1907 she became a museum. Today she is the world\u2019s oldest active vessel. Berthed in the Charlestown Naval Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, she sports a crew of 60 and provides historical perspectives and tours for visitors. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/bost\/historyculture\/ussconst.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USS Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USS Constitution began\u00a0its maiden voyage in 1798. Nicknamed Old Ironsides, the three-masted, wooden ship was named by President George Washington. She was most active in the War of 1812, and in 1907 she became a museum. Today she is the world\u2019s oldest active vessel. Berthed in the Charlestown Naval Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, she sports <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6166' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5736,808,807,5733,158,806,805],"class_list":["post-6166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5736","tag-boston","tag-charlestown-naval-yard","tag-july-22","tag-massachusetts","tag-old-ironsides","tag-uss-constitution","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6166"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22701,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions\/22701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}