Category: Restorations

Copper Bottomed

Revealing the Cutwater

Axes and Adzes

Restored with Care

Tall Trees for America’s Tall Ship

This Splendid Work of Art

An Open and Shut “Caisson”

Up, Up and Away!

A Rare Sight

The Restoration Begins

Hot Stove, Cool Ship

Adams Dry Dock

Constitution’s Dry Dock

The Engine House

High and Dry

Flooding the Dock

Scrubbing the Hull

Preparing for Dry Dock

USS Constitution readied to enter Dry Dock 1

Greasing the Skids

A Local Innovator: Loammi Baldwin, Jr. (1780-1838)

The “Wooden Walls” of USS Constitution

Dry Dock 1 Time-lapse, May 2015

History of Dry Dock 1, Charlestown Navy Yard: An Overview

Maintaining and Restoring an Icon

Handsomer than she ever was

First Photo

A Chip off the Old Block

I Prefer the President

Dry Docking of USS Constitution, 1927