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could be the oldest commissioned warship on the globe even now afloat. Nicknamed “Outdated Ironsides,” she is today berthed in Boston and is called “America’s Ship of State.” Her Tale illuminates Substantially concerning the U.S. Navy in the course of the nation’s 1st one hundred yrs.off Brazil on December 29. A British shot wrecked her