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Painting Hull In her early years, the ship's hull sported a yellow ochre-colored gun streak/stripe. Her familiar black and white hull color was established by at least 1811.

Within weeks, Bostonians had gathered a 30,000-signature petition to demand the preservation of USS Constitution. Six weeks after Gulesian made his first offer in 1906, Congress appropriated $100,000 to restore the ship.

After the 1927-31 work, the 1992-96 restoration is considered the next most important 20th century work executed on Constitution. The ship was dry docked in September, 1992, and thus began a 4-year, 5-part initiative to restore the physical strength to the nearly 200-year-old warship.

ing to the Naval History and Heritage Command Detachment Boston, today's U.S.S. Constitution maintains about 10 to 15 percent of its original wood, including the lower futtocks, keel and the deadwood at the stem and stern.

The guns aboard USS Constitution today: The present guns aboard USS Constitution date from the 1927-31 restoration. They are inaccurate replicas, purporting to be like the ship's War of 1812 armament (refer again to information above), and were never intended to be fired.

USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest ship still afloat.

USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned ship in the United States Navy. Naval officers and crew still serve aboard the ship today.

Boston's Most Storied Ship One of these warships, USS Constitution, was built at Hartt's shipyard in the North End of Boston. Construction began in 1794 and Constitution launched on October 21, 1797. The ship sailed its first cruise the next year as the Quasi-War with France emerged.