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The U. S. S. Constitution—General view of the spar deck looking from aft. The spanker boom temporarily unshipped is not in its customary position. The hammock nettings are for stowage of the crew’s hammocks during daytime Guns & Gunnery, Old Ironsides-I. Historical Research on the Oldest Ship of the Navy —Interesting Facts on Her Cannons and Equipment aid, bids fair to accomplish what no antagonist, with deadly in- tent, ever did to OLD IRONSIDES—lay her low! Look at the gaping holes in her sides; the skill of shipwrights only can make her well again! Stoic- ally, without a groan or whimper, “the Nestor of our navy” waits pa- tiently for the succor that is so slow in coming. A short prescription by congress, and a soft berth for a brief while in dock, will rejuvenate the “veteran of our navy.” One short clause in- serted in the naval appropriation bill, waiving the statutory limit placed on the repair of wooden vessels, with an added mandatory clause for the requisite expenditure, will insure to the CONSTITUTION another long lease of life. It cannot be that’ the elders of the United States have less patriotism today than _ their children, or less than their forefathers in the days when the CONSTITUTION, young and vigorous, like a damsel in young womanhood was “looking for engagements.” General George Washington did not Pisa via TIME, without man’s This is part 1 of the article on the Guns and Gunnery of Old Ironsides. Part 2 will be published in an early issue. BY ELLIOT SNOW Rear Admiral (C. C.) U. S. N., Retired hoard dollars when lives and _ ships were in danger from Barbary corsairs, and now when O.xp IRonsIpEs is at- tacked by that invisible foe, Father Ship Mindedness To the Hditor I understand thoroughly that the principal mission and pur- pose of the MARINE REVIEW is that of promoting a merchant marine and of building up ma- terial and information which will help in this aim. Taking a very broad view of the accomplish- ment of this mission, it seems to me that any thing which tends to inculcate “ship mindedness” in the people of the United States must of necessity redound to the upbuilding of our merchant ma- rine. The fact that in the very early days of the United States as a nation, many of its most prom- inent officers and principally all of its seamen were drawn from the merchant marine, seems to me to indicate that an interest in OLD IRONSIDES will but reflect a deep interest in the merchant marine. Elliot Snow Rear Admiral (C. C.) U. S. N. Retired 23 Time, is she to be left in the lurch! Is this nation of ours so wedded to its dollars, dimes and nickels that sufficient “golden eagles” are not to be forthcoming to restore again this historic old vessel! Shall the flag of the CONSTITUTION be lowered and burned to avoid the rag bag (a fate which befalls all bunting except na- tional colors); her rigging, sold and picked to shreds by the junkman and used for calking the decks of common craft; her spars and scarred sides, sawed into chunks or chopped to bits with a landsman’s axe and burned on the dump? Far _ better would it be, to use the timber of OLp IRONsIDES to warm the hearths of sailors havens. Are her guns to be broken, by a falling shapeless weight, loosed by the hand of a mere boy, and then serve as ballast in the dark hold of some old derrick? Let our answer come back in thunderous peal “NO!” OLD IRONSIDES, cannons oft have spoken in defense of the freedom of the seas, of the land of our great grandsires—Yes, in the very defense of the constitution itself. Had she not thus breathed forth, in righteous wrath, her fiery words of rebuke could we hold our heads as high to-