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Show "Old Ironsides" Regains Youth Installed which with a sister keelson makes the ship's center-line longitudinal longitu-dinal strength 90 per cent greater. New futtocks fashioned of live oak from Florida, kept for 73 years under water, are placed between the frame ribs before the old are removed. All Is bolted together, with bar copper everywhere replacing Iron. Where the new cresote-drenched "ceiling" or Inner In-ner planking approaches the berth desk the old craft's lines are as fair and pretty as those, of any maiden ship awaiting launching. From Delaware have come great curved white oak roots and from West Virginia long, straight white oak timbers. tim-bers. With modern methods of preservation pres-ervation the rebuilt Constitution should have a longer life than It bad in prospect when first built. England has locked up Lord Nelson's Nel-son's flagship Victory In a drydock. kBut even after repairs It will never sail the high seas again. "The Constitution," says Lieutenant Lord, "nearly as old and In a similar decayed condition, will be fully restored, re-stored, permitting it to appear again on the high seas fully equipped and rigged stanch and seaworthy, in all Its glory." Will Once More Sail High Seat, Stanch and Sea worthy. Boston. Shedding the decay c 132 years, Old Ironsides Is growing young again. As the days pass In the drydock at the Boston navy yard the old frigate fri-gate feels new ribs forming In Its massive frame, aew strength growing In its ancient bu'l. But renewing the youth of the Constitution Con-stitution is a herculean task. Lieut. John A. Lord, V. S. N., grizzled master mas-ter builder of such pteel superdread-naughts superdread-naughts as the New York and the Arizona Ari-zona and designer and builder of wooden craft, too, Is surgeon in charge of the operation. Lieutenant Lord says the task in hand Is like no other ever undertaken in marine engineering. Seventy per cent of the ship must be replaced, including in-cluding Its most vital parts. Original methods had to be devised, for It had reached a state of almost complete decay. Difficult Task. Lord has put two years of planning Into the work now being carried forward. for-ward. All he had to begin with was a drydock. Wooden shipbuilding at the yard ended 60 years ago. An Improvised Im-provised shipyard had to be assembled, with shops, lumber, sawmills and planing plan-ing machine. From the wooden shipyards ship-yards of bis home state, Maine, he assembled as-sembled a small but expert force of workers. These were augmented with navy yard workers, specially qualified. Some of the equipment Is quite ancient an-cient as machinery goes. A futtock saw, brought in from Portsmouth, N. II., to saw out those crooked timbers which, scarfed together, make the ship's ribs, Is seventy years old. Where it lies In drydock now the dismantled hull of the famous fighting phlp Is almost lost behind a screen of scaffolding " and bracing. A cradle had to be thrust tightly about her bottom to hold her firmly together a new method. Within the ship, too, a small forest of braces and shoriug has sprung up between the four decks. As he clambered clam-bered up and down ludders, through hatches and down Into the bottommost bottom-most part of the ship. Lieutenant Lord explained that all this was necessary. The danger of collapse has to be reckoned reck-oned with In every step of the work, as decayed supporting timbers are removed re-moved and replaced by sturdy oaken beams. In the bow the sides are held together by a mass of steel cables. Copper Replaces Iron. The work Is like reconstructing a worn-out four-story building In which the first floor must be torn out and repaired first. In the bottom a new keelson was |