How about USS Constitution (Old Ironsides)? She's still an active warship
with the US Navy.
David Yarbrough
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mel Miller" <nourmahal@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Military Vehicles List" <mil-veh@skylee.com>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 2:50 PM
Subject: [MV] HMS VICTORY and the WASA
> A question arose about the oldest warship around. One English poster
> stated that HMS VICTORY is the oldest warship still in commission in the
> world. Then Ron the Frog asked about the WASA, a Swedish warship of the
> seventeenth century which capsized and sank on its maiden voyage.
>
> The short answer is that HMS VICTORY is the oldest warship STILL IN
> COMMISSION, having been in Commission since Nelsons time (except for
> relatively short periods of decomissioning for rebuilds). The concept of
> an eighteenth century warship still being 'In Commisssion" in a modern
> navy admittedly strains credulity, but the Royal Navy (a bastion of
> tradition) could not have picked a more fitting relic to preserve and
> memorialize than Nelsons flagship!
>
> Mel Miller
> M725 X 2
>
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