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will be the oldest commissioned warship on earth even now afloat. Nicknamed “Aged Ironsides,” she's nowadays berthed in Boston and is referred to as “The us’s Ship of Condition.” Her Tale illuminates much with regard to the U.S. Navy through the nation’s to start with 100 a long time.The earliest known photograph of Structure, going thr