ocr: Warat Sea Officers ofU.S.S. Constitution could not have asked for a scrappier or more dis- ciplined crew: some 450 sailors and maries- -volunteers to the: man. Officers and enlisted men were well trained and adequately paid. To keep them armed, boys called powder monkeys ran canisters of gunpowder from themagazineon the orlop deck to the gun and spardecks. One of six heavy frigates.authorized i 1794 to form the U.S. Navy, Constitution launched her 57-year fighting career in 1798. She fired her last shotin battlei in 1815.After retiring from battle duty in 1855, she served as a naval training s ...
