Oh, I forgot, only 10,000 gals. of water was consumed!!!!

Earl.

--- In ussindependencecva62-1@yahoogroups.com, Frank Votra <sashtool@...> wrote:
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> 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).
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> 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."
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> GO NAVY
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