WW1 US NAVY SAILOR on SLOOP-of-WAR USS CONSTELLATION c1916 PHOTO POSTCARD RPPC

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WW1 US NAVY SAILOR of the SLOOP-of-WAR * USS CONSTELLATION c1916 PHOTO POSTCARD RPPC
THE SLOOP-of -WAR " USS CONSTELLATION (1854) " WAS ACTIVE DURING HER
SERVICE DURING THE ** CIVIL WAR AND AS A TRAINING SHIP DURING WW1, THE TIME OF THIS SAILORS ENLISTMENT.
THE SAILOR WEARS A SELDOM SEEN U.S. NAVY
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USS CONSTELLATION
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CONDITION IS VERY FINE WITH VERY LIGHT HANDLING.
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F.E.ALLEN   THIRD & PINE STS.   WILLIAMSPORT. PA.
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USS Constellation (1854)
is a sloop-of-war, the last sail-only warship designed and built by the United States Navy. She was built at the Gosport Shipyard between 1853 and 1855 and was named for the earlier frigate of the same name that had been broken up in 1853. She is part of a Maritime Museum today in Baltimore MD.
** Civil War Duty
A week after the
Battle of Fort Sumter
, which began the
American Civil War
, President
Abraham Lincoln
declared a blockade of all ports of the
Confederacy
on 19 April 1861. A month later, on 21 May,
Constellation
captured another slave ship, again without any slaves aboard. In August, the Navy recalled
Constellation
, and she arrived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on 28 September. She was dispatched to the Mediterranean on 11 March 1862 to patrol for Confederate
commerce raiders
attempting to attack Union merchant shipping, since her sails provided much greater endurance than steam-powered warships of the day. Commanded by Captain
Henry Thatcher
,
Constellation
arrived in the Mediterranean on 19 April. Over the course of the following 2 years, she patrolled the Mediterranean, but saw little action apart from the blockade of the
blockade runner
and commerce raider
CSS
Sumter
that was
laid up
in
Gibraltar
in need of repairs and refueling. She also blocked the
Confederate Navy
from taking possession of
SS
Southerner
in Italy.
In May 1864,
Constellation
departed the Mediterranean, bound for the
West Indies
; Thatcher reasoned that since his ship was known to be patrolling the Mediterranean, and there were no other similar warships in the Navy, that he would be able to surprise Confederate cruisers and blockade runners. Admiral
David Farragut
recalled
Constellation
on 27 November; while en route, she chased a blockade runner but was unable to catch her. She reached
Fort Monroe
, Virginia on 25 December, and most of her crew, whose enlistments had ended, were discharged. Without a crew to man the vessel,
Constellation.