USS Constitution Museum

This guide to the USS Constitution Museum in Boston opens on an August afternoon in 1812, when a British cannonball struck the frigate USS Constitution during her fight with HMS Guerriere and a sailor on deck reacted with words that gave the ship a lasting nickname. It follows Captain Isaac Hull's two weeks of gun drills and the close, disciplined approach that battered Guerriere's rigging. You'll hear what the museum itself later found when it checked the legend against the record. The exhibit sits steps from the real, still-commissioned ship.