US Frigate Constitution Enters San Francisco Bay -- 1933

 

I last posted about "Old Ironsides" on this blog back on Dec. 12, 2013. If you are interested, you may want to look at that blog post by clicking here.  I was going through some old photographs that I have and came across an additional photo that I had inadvertently omitted from that blog.  I thought is was such an interesting photo that I would include it here, at the almost 250th anniversary of the founding of our nation.  It is somewhat of a miracle that this ship, originally constructed over 225 years ago, is still afloat today.  

Of course, this has not been without extensive reconstruction of the ship many times through the years. 

The picture, of course, is of both the USF Constitution and the Golden Gate Bridge while being constructed in 1933.  The occasion of the ship being in San Francisco Bay in 1933, which I might add was over 90 years ago, was part of a tour following the 1927-1931 reconstruction of the ship at the Boston Navy Shipyard.  For the next three years after its reconstruction the ship toured the ports of the coastal states from Boston to Washington and back.  Don't forget that at that time Hawaii and Alaska were not states, and consequently did not get included on the tour.

The ship passed through the Panama Canal in order to get from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, both going to the West Coast and upon it's return.  I just happen to have an image of the ship as it passed through the Panama Canal, but I don't know if this was going West in 1932 or returning East in 1934.