SHIP:  
Closed Now
MUSEUM:  
Closed Now
SHIP:  
Closed Now
MUSEUM:  
Closed Now

Join us on Social

We add new content regularly, so check our handles daily.

Anchor Icon

Facebook

Comments Box SVG iconsUsed for the like, share, comment, and reaction icons

Huzzah! It's a Block Party! We're shaking up July 4th tradition with the addition of a community block party at the Navy Yard. "Putt through History" minigolf, live music, food trucks, and activities -- with a special focus on celebrating the Military Community on Independence Day. #FreeFamilyFun

Learn more: bit.ly/43kdcUZ
... See MoreSee Less

Huzzah! Its a Block Party! Were shaking up July 4th tradition with the addition of a community block party at the Navy Yard. Putt through History minigolf, live music, food trucks, and activities -- with a special focus on celebrating the Military Community on Independence Day.  #FreeFamilyFun

Learn more: https://bit.ly/43kdcUZ

"They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home." - FDR to Americans on the night of June 6th, 79 years ago.

#D-Day
#NeverForget

📷 Photos courtesy of U.S. Navy
... See MoreSee Less

This week will celebrate Women Veterans on USS Constitution's first underway of the year! To keep with the theme, this is the uniform worn by Lieutenant Claire V. Bloom, the first woman to wear an officer’s 1804-style uniform in the modern U.S. Navy when she served as executive officer from 1996 to 1998. Women were prohibited from serving in the U.S. Navy in the 1800s, so this uniform strives to stay true to the original uniforms while adapting it for Lieutenant Bloom.

The purse? Standard '90s-era U.S. Navy issue. In a 1998 interview with the Boston Globe, Bloom explained that she wore the purse even with her replica uniform because it was a convenient way of carrying her things around. And, why not? #efficiency #GetsItDone

#boston
#history
#womenveterans
... See MoreSee Less

This week will celebrate Women Veterans on USS Constitutions first underway of the year! To keep with the theme, this is the uniform worn by Lieutenant Claire V. Bloom, the first woman to wear an officer’s 1804-style uniform in the modern U.S. Navy when she served as executive officer from 1996 to 1998. Women were prohibited from serving in the U.S. Navy in the 1800s, so this uniform strives to stay true to the original uniforms while adapting it for Lieutenant Bloom. 

The purse? Standard 90s-era U.S. Navy issue. In a 1998 interview with the Boston Globe, Bloom explained that she wore the purse even with her replica uniform because it was a convenient way of carrying her things around. And, why not?  #efficiency  #GetsItDone

#boston 
#history 
#womenveteransImage attachmentImage attachment

Comment on Facebook

Lieutenant Commander Claire Bloom

Load more