Interesting input, folks. Here are a few related items:
* 2009 obituary for then-commander of U.S.S. Constitution V.F.W. Post 3339, Edward J. Tucker,
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=edward-j-tucker&pid=126996218.
* U.S.S. Constitution ship's bell for-sale listing,
http://www.kahnfineantiques.com/index.cfm?ImgId=393. Description, "This bell dated 1935 probably once hung outside the VFW post 3339 in Boston or Charlestown. It is inscribed 'U.S.S. Constitution All Navy Ship No.3339 Boston 1935.' This particular VFW Post was apparently able to have their meetings and functions on board 'Old Ironsides.' The actual origin of this bell is unknown. It measures 14" high and has a 14" diameter."
* Sometime after the mid-1930s, Congress deeded over to VFW Post 3339 a retired lightship, L.V. 82, according to this history of the vessel,
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=531374546931771&story_fbid=723535137715710. The story says in part: "Laid up as a relief vessel, L.V. 82 found still another odd change in course in her future. Rep. John W. McCormack of Massachusetts sponsored an act of Congress that, when signed by President Franklin Roosevelt, turned the little lightship over to newly-formed U.S.S. Constitution Post 3339, Veterans of Foreign Wars -- a Boston VFW post of ex-Navy men who used the docked lightship as summer quarters from 1936 until 1945. In the end, vandals did what not even a vicious Great Lakes gale could do -- they drove L.V. 82 under for good, sinking her at her dock. According to the late New England historian Edgar Rowe Snow, the wreckage was finally scrapped."
