Maine’s Llewellyn J. Morse was not the USS Constitution, but she played her in the movie.

It’s okay if you haven’t heard of me. Like you, I was born in Maine. In 1877, as the last full-rigged ship made in Bangor, I began my career in the China Trade, sailing to the Orient with the name of my owner, lumber baron Llewellyn J. Morse, on my billethead.

My Far East adventures ended when Louis Rosenfeld bought me in 1888 and I debuted in San Francisco. In 1898, the Alaska Packer Association bought me, and I started dodging the Pacific icebergs of middle age.

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