C.Q. leads to the unmistakable conclusion that the 1853 ship was built with new materials to a design different from that of her predecessor. Thus , neither in material nor in hull form is there any connection between the CONSTELLATION now at Baltimore and the CONSTELLATION launched at Baltimore in 1797.

irresponsiJ:>le journalism or the result of a " leak." Little more need be said. As Mr. Polland well said, " valid evidence exists in the remaining original documents as well as in the physical structure of the ship." But, contrary to the conclusions that he drew from these data, an unbiased examination of the material already published in

U.S. S. CONSTELLATION at the 1926 Sesqui-centennial Celebration in l'hiladelphia. Ship in background is Admiral Dewey's flagship U.S. S. OLYMPIA 28