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USS CONSTITUTION. The Constitution--called Old Ironsides because cannonballs could not penetrate her tough oak sides--was one of the first of the original six frigates that made up the U.S. Navy. A 44-gun frigate built at the Edmond Hartt Shipyard, Boston, MA, in 1797.
Save. The Naval History and Heritage Command website says that the United States Navy uses the letters USS to signify United States Ship.. According to the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps (USNSCC) website, this designation was adopted in 1907 and is used to denote Navy ships manned by military personnel.Once decommissioned, the ship is known simply by its name, without the USS..or example, according to USNSCC, a destroyer tender originally commissioned in 1915 as USS Melville Destroyer Tender No. 2 in 1915 was re-designated as USS Melville AD-2.. Phil Mislinski/Getty Images News/Getty Images. Naming Navy Ships. The name of each ship is decided by the presiding Secretary of the Navy.