The USS Constitution, a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy…
December 1812 CE
On December 29, 1812, she meets the British frigate HMS Java off Bahia, Brazil.
After a battle lasting three hours, Java strikes her colors and is burned after being judged unsalvageable.
Constitution had at first seemed relatively undamaged in the battle, but it is later determined that Java had successfully hit Constitution's masts with eighteen-pounder shot, but the mast hadn't fallen due to its immense diameter.
Constitution's falls while she is docked.
United States, Constitution and President are all almost fifty percent larger by tonnage, crew, firepower, and scantling size than the Macedonian, Guerriere and Java. (Guerriere was rotten and had lightning damage as well as being weakly built as a French ship; Java had extra marines onboard making the disparity in crew more similar although she too was a French-built ship; Macedonian fit the fifty percent statistic near perfectly.)