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Navy Seabees built a desk for Vice President Kamala Harris with wood, copper and nails from the USS Constitution.
The USS Constitution is one of the country s first frigates and the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.
The vice president and Navy secretary now have new desks built out of materials from some of the most storied ships in US history.
Navy Seabees built a desk for Vice President Kamala Harris made from wood, copper and nails taken off the USS Constitution, one of the country s first frigates. The Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.
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More than two centuries after President George Washington signed the act that authorized the construction of the frigate USS Constitution, a sailor from Maine is part of a team that has linked the earliest steps of a new nation to a very different present-day United States government.
Builder 2nd Class Donald Morse IV, of Lyman, a member of Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command in Washington, D.C., was part of a team of four who repurposed wood from the ship, as well as parts from several other historic U.S. Navy vessels, to create executive desks for the offices of the vice president and the U.S. secretary of the Navy.
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