USS Constitution will be underway on July 4

Go and see her !

The USS Constitution is scheduled to depart Charlestown Naval Shipyard on July 4th at 10:00 a.m. in honor of Independence Day! The USS Constitution cruise will be visible from the Boston Harbor Promenade, Castle Island, and Charlestown Naval Shipyard. A 21-gun salute will be visible from Fort Independence on Castle Island at approximately 11:30 a.m.

The USS Constitution will fire an additional 17-gun salute as it passes U.S. Coast Guard Sector Boston, the former site of Edmund Hartt’s shipyard, where the USS Constitution was built and launched on October 21, 1797.

While you’re at Castle Island, you might as well grab lunch or ice cream at At Sullivan’s! The move will commemorate the 248th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The USS Constitution is the world’s oldest commissioned warship and the United States’ ship of state. She played a crucial role in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812, actively defending the sea lanes from 1797 to 1855.