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. . At 9 am the frigate Constellation was launched . . . a better launch I never saw. The original VSS Constellation as she looks today. Those words were spoken by Captain Thomas Truxton on September 7, 1797, as the 38-gun frigate Constellation slid down the ways, launching a career which would span 157 years. Constellation was completed just in time, because in June of 1798, the United States became involved in her first naval war. The Quasi War, as the conflict with France was known, was largely Constella- tion ' s war. She fought and captured the 40- gun frigate L ' Insurgente. the fastest ship in the French navy. After her triumph over L ' Insurgente, Constellation scored her second victory of the war when she defeated the French war- ship La Vengeance in a bloody and violent five hour battle. Constellation fought with honor in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812. In the 1840 ' s, Constellation became the first American warship to enter the inland wa- ters of China. During the Civil War, she helped break up the slave trade and served in the Mediterranean Sea protecting mer- chant ships. Constellation was decommissioned on June 28,1933, but was recommissioned as a national symbol on August 24, 1940 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Navy ' s treasured warship ended her com- missioned service on February 4, 1955. In July 1980, Constellation arrived at her per- manent berth in Baltimore, Maryland, where she remains afloat today as a remind- er of our nation ' s proud maritime history. 4 HISTORY
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lLATION CvA-64 NEW YORK NAVAL SHIPYARD IIKIYN NY. •s? - T ' 4. v . r ■- VrJ f 7 ' - t Si 1 ,- L J LmSI F 1 i • t U; 1 r 4 r-t-i k Mrs. Christian Herder, ship ' s sponsor, prepares to christen USS Constellation during ceremo- nies held at New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn, N.Y. A stellar record Like her famous namesake, the current USS Constellation (CV-64) has a long and proud record of service. Built at the New York Naval Shipyard as the sec- ond ship in the Kitty Hawk class of air- craft carriers, Connie has nearly 30 years of service which has seen her sail into harms way from Yankee Station off the coast of Vietnam to the Gulf of Oman in the Indian Ocean. Commissioned Oct. 27, 1961, Constella- tion sailed west to her only homeport of San Diego in July of 1962. In Aug. 4, 1964, the American destroy- ers Maddox and Turner Joy were attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats in the international waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. Constellation, visiting Hong Kong on a reg- ularly-scheduled port visit, set sail immedi- ately and began launching strikes against North Vietnamese vessels and bases. For the next eight years. Constellation would return to the South China Sea for a total of seven combat cruises, conducting air strikes against heavily-fortified North Vietnamese positions, engaging naval tar- gets and shooting down enemy aircraft. The first American aces of the Vietnam War, Lt. Randall Cunningham and Lt.j.g. Willie Driscoll of VF-96, flew off Constel- lation ' s flight deck. Their success came during the ship ' s seventh WESTPAC, and her sixth combat cruise. For her action in Southeast Asia, Con- stellation was awarded the coveted Presi- dential Unit Citation. In 1975, Connie was designated CV from CVA with the addition of the S-3A Viking and F-14A Tomcat. In 1982, Constellation celebrated her 21st birthday. Naval aviation had under- gone vast changes since 1961, and to keep up with those changes, Connie once again went into the yards for modernization. When she came out of Bremerton, Wash- ington in 1984, two weeks early and under budget, she had been modified to carry the Navy ' s new strike fighter, the FA- 18 Hor- net. From her birthplace at the New York Na- val Shipyard to her homeport of San Diego, from the troubled waters of the Gulf of Tonkin to the North Arabian Sea, Constel- lation has written an impressive record for the world to see. And it has been a stellar record! Connie under construction in the New York Naval Shipyard. HISTORY 5
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