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Sisters?

This article continually refers refers to "Congress" and "Chesapeake" as "sister ships" of the "Constitution". They were not.They and "Constellation" were 38-gun frigates of a lighter class. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2404:4404:3400:6600:CCDB:DE5:12DC:B170 (talk) 10:21, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You need to better research. Those ships underwent extensive modifications. That is why they have different armament. 67.199.215.192 (talk) 02:10, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tour Capacity?

How many people can be accommodated for a tour? 188.28.112.235 (talk) 12:05, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Updated vessel command list.

Vessel recently changed command, I updated the list of commanders, if anyone wants to go through and check if I missed anything go ahead. 97.177.58.134 (talk) 03:00, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

At USS Constitution § Commanders there are some 50 COs who are red-linked. That suggests that they are not notable in the Wikipedia sense. I propose to delete all COs who do not have their own articles. WP:SHIPSNOTCREWS would seem to suggest that the whole list be removed. I'm more-or-less indifferent to that position but there was no CO list when this article was promoted FA. At a minimum I think that all the redlinked and unlinked COs in the list of commanders should be removed.

Do? Not do?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:54, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I feel like deleting the entire list would probably serve more harm than it does good. Every commander of the vessel can be considered notable and should be listed. I believe that removing the list can cause some heavy confusion, considered to the average person the list would look like there's way too less commanders than realistically should. I believe for now the list should be left alone 97.177.58.134 (talk) 20:20, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also mentioning that I seemed to have forgotten to at least redlinked the new commander. But in all honestly it just seems a bad idea to delete the list of commands for having unlinked. Other historical naval vessel lists seem to still have their full commanders listed. 97.177.58.134 (talk) 20:25, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Popular media

The ship features, and has a quest, in Fallout 4. This alone warrants a typical 'in popular media' section, and I dare say she's at least visible in a film or two set in Boston, or mentioned in novels. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.4.216.157 (talk) 08:03, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Protected edit request on 20 July 2025, adding inflation calculation

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Suggest that this inflation calculator be added to inform of the current cost, adjusted for inflation.

(Error when using {{Inflation}}: NaN, check parameters for non-numeric data: |value=$302,718 (parameter 2).)

$302,718 in 1794 is worth $10,577,526.29 today Regushee (talk) 14:08, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not fully protected. But, I'm not convinced that current cost, adjusted for inflation is a meaningful metric for this ship so without a substantive argument that persuades me otherwise, I would oppose adding a (working) version of the suggested template. The working template looks like this:

{{inflation|US|302718|1794|r=-3|fmt=eq}} → equivalent to $6,416,000 in 2024

Interestingly, that is significantly different from OP's claim: $302,718 in 1794 is worth $10,577,526.29 today.

Do we need either? I don't think so.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 00:24, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]