It wouldn’t constitution had never been dry docked as a matter of long term storage, victory hasn’t seen water in a hundred years (April 8 1925) and no you cannot easily just drop her back in the water and expect her to float. That said constitution could sail today if it were advantageous to do so, last time she sailed in her own power was July 21 1997.
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It wouldn’t constitution had never been dry docked as a matter of long term storage, victory hasn’t seen water in a hundred years (April 8 1925) and no you cannot easily just drop her back in the water and expect her to float. That said constitution could sail today if it were advantageous to do so, last time she sailed in her own power was July 21 1997.