"Old ironsides" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... country and himself out of inevitable disaster and defeat. That last gun from the Cumberland, when her deck was half submerged, sounded the requiem of many sinking ships. Then went down all the navies of Europe, and our own, Old Ironsides and all, and Trafalgar and a thousand other fights became only a memory, never to be acted over again; and thus our brave countrymen come last in the long procession of heroic sailors that includes Blake and Nelson, and so many mariners ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 57, July, 1862 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... {"Old Ironsides" the United States Frigate "Constitution"; in the early 1800s, U.S. naval ships frequently carried diplomats to and ...
— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper |
