So you think you can move a cannon like a Sailor? These #scouts did! Thank you to the crew of USS Constitution for showing us how it's done and for co-hosting a great Scout Day last week! 👏 💪
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I love it. Well done!
#EarthDay Fun Fact: Dry Dock 1 at Charlestown Navy Yard, located next to the Museum and where USS Constitution repairs have been made since its completion in 1833, has been used as a historical reference for the oldest known tracking of rising tide levels. Data from 1826 comes from Loammi Baldwin, Jr. a civil engineer who measured Boston’s tides while designing the dock. It continues to be monitored today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as part of their studies of Boston Harbor. 🌊
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Great post! Another local antebellum naturalist’s meticulous notes are also helping us to understand climate change. Richard Primack, a Biology Professor at Boston University, over an eleven year period compared Henry David Thoreau’s notes about the climate at Walden Pond with his own taken on the same date. It was a revealing study about the impact of global warming.
Last week, we flew kites on the lawn of the elegant Commandant's House at Charlestown Navy Yard. Located next to the Museum, the house was built in 1805 and first occupied by USS Constitution Captain Samuel Nicholson and his family. Six commanders of "Old Ironsides" served as Commandants of the Navy Yard and lived in this beautiful home overlooking "Old Ironsides" and Boston Harbor. Built for entertaining and family living, the beautiful house is set apart from the rest of the industrial setting of the Yard. Guests of the home include Presidents James Monroe and Andrew Johnson.
Today, the house has been preserved by the National Park Service as part of Boston National Historical Park and is used as meeting space.
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After the War of 1812 and service leading USS Constitution, Captain Charles Stewart commanded the Mediterranean, Pacific, and Home Squadrons, as well as the Philadelphia Station and Navy Yard. He also served as a commissioner of the Navy. In 1837, he became the first and only captain of the ship-of-the-line USS Pennsylvania. Mounting 120 guns, she was the largest sailing warship in the U.S. Navy, but was soon thought too expensive to maintain and therefore laid up. In 1840, some considered Stewart a possible nominee for the presidency. By 1852, he was the service’s senior officer; he was officially ranked as “senior flag officer” in 1859. With the implementation of a new ranking system in 1862, Stewart was made the senior rear admiral on the retired list, and served as a consultant to President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. Stewart died on November 6, 1869 and was interred in Philadelphia’s Woodlawn Cemetery. He had served for more than 71 years.🇺🇸
Stewart’s service has been subsequently recalled in the naming of two destroyers (1902 and 1920) and a destroyer escort (1943). ⚓
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📸 Painting, Oil on Canvas; By Orlando S Lagman after Thomas Sully; C. 1965; Courtesy Naval History and Heritage Command
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My favorite after Melhuish
