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LITTLE KNOWN TIDBIT OF NAVAL HISTORY...


The U. S. S. Constitution (Old Ironsides), as a combat vessel,
carried
48,600 gallons of fresh water for her crew of 475 officers and
men. This was
sufficient to last six months of sustained operations at sea. She
carried no
evaporators (i.e.fresh water distillers).

However, let it be noted that according to her ship's log, "On
July 27,
1798, the U.S.S. Constitution sailed from Boston with a full
complement of
475 officers and men, 48,600 gallons of fresh water, 7,400 cannon
shot,
11,600 pounds of black powder and 79,400 gallons of rum."

Her mission: "To destroy and harass English shipping."

Making Jamaica on 6 October, she took on 826 pounds of flour and
68,300
gallons of rum.

Then she headed for the Azores , arriving there 12 November. She
provisioned
with 550 pounds of beef and 64,300 gallons of Portuguese wine.

On 18 November, she set sail for England . In the ensuing days she
defeated
five British men-of-war and captured and scuttled 12 English
merchant ships,
salvaging only the rum aboard each.

By 26 January, her powder and shot were exhausted. Nevertheless,
although
unarmed she made a night raid up the Firth of Clyde in Scotland .
Her
landing party captured a whisky distillery and transferred 40,000
gallons of
single malt Scotch aboard by dawn. Then she headed home.

The U.S.S. Constitution arrived in Boston on 20 February 1799,
with no
cannon shot, no food, no powder, no rum, no wine, no whisky, and
38,600
gallons of water.

GO NAVY

had to be a water trip as thers no roads in the water :roflmao: