Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. USS ConStitUtion, 1797 Launched on October 21, 1797, the USS Constitution has won every battle she’s ever fought—more than 40 of them! She earned her nickname “Old Ironsides” after a sailor saw a cannonball bounce off her hull. Resting in Boston Harbor, she’s the oldest commissioned US warship. USS Constitution went through several restorations during her career. A major restoration between 1993 and 1997 prepared the frigate for her 200th anniversary. Workers restored the thick deck strakes and diagonal riders to strengthen the hull and make her seaworthy. They fitted fore, main and mizzen topsails, jib, flying jib, and spanker sails for the day when “Old Ironsides” would move under her own power once more. That historic moment arrived on July 21, 1997, when USS Constitution set sail from Marblehead Harbor to a point just one mile short of Halfway Rock. The five-mile cruise lasted one hour. Model Shipways is proud to produce the best and most accurate USS Constitution available. Our kit is based on the 1927 Navy drawings, photographs and documentation used during the 1993–97 restoration. Plank-on-bulkhead construction features laser cut wooden parts. High quality basswood planking strips cover the hull and we include self-adhesive copper tape for hull plating. Download sample pages from the instruction manual. Constitution Paint Set: Eleven bottles. Two each (1 oz.): MS4839 Primer, MS4830 Hull/Spar Black, MS4831 White, MS4801 Bulwarks Dark Green; one each (1 oz.): MS4802 Bulwarks Gun Carriage Red, MS4828 Iron/Cannon Black, MS4969 Gold. No. MS2040MS · Price $43.95 Walnut Display Base: 30" x 4-1/2" No. RH4530 · Price $34.99 Full set of Constitution Plans: No. MSPL2040 · Price $109.99 True-to-scale Britannia metal, brass and hardwood fittings and 16 photoetched brass sheets provide life-like detail. More than 50 cannon, carronade and gun barrels duplicate original armament. Extra touches include laser cut gratings and engraved scrollwork. Four-hundred yards of rigging line in six diameters is also supplied. Model Shipways kit includes eight sheets of detailed plans and 48 page step-by-step instruction manual by Ben Lankford uncover the secrets of building a museum quality replica. Display base and brass pedestals are not included. Advanced Level · No. MS2040 Length 48" · Height 32" · Width 16" Scale 5/32" = 1ft. (1:76.8) SALE $ 54999 Model Shipways f Plank-On-Bulkhead Kits 800.222.3876