I think it's probably the old "Quick-Build" kit from the late seventies.
At that time Revell (like all the other American kit manufacturers) was having serious financial problems. The "Quick-Build" series of sailing ships was intended to attract people who thought sailing ship models were pretty, but were put off by the complicated rigging, etc., of the three-foot kits. The series included the Constitution, Cutty Sark, Thermopylae (a clone of the Cutty Sark, of course), Mayflower, and yacht America. The last named was an original kit; the others were variations on older Revell products. The Mayflower was an enlarged version of Revell's earlier, and excellent, version of that ship; the only big difference in the "Quick-Build" version, other than size, was that most of the rigging blocks were omitted. The other three were shrunken versions of the big 1/96-scale kits.)
I never built this "medium-sized" Constitution, but I remember looking at it in the hobby shop where I worked. As I recall, it was really simplified. Each deck was molded in one piece, with most of the deck furniture, including the gun carriages, cast integrally with the decks. The gundeck only extended an inch or so fore and aft of the hatch in the middle of the spar deck; the gunport lids in the bow and stern were molded shut. All the spar components were considerably simplied; the "shrouds and ratlines" were injection-molded blobs, and there were no blocks or other fittings for the rigging. It probably did a good job in its intended role of introducing people to the hobby, but I couldn't recommend it to serious scale modelers.
I'm typing on the office computer; when I get home tonight I'll look up the kit number in Dr. Graham's book. His coverage stops with 1979, though; this kit number may or not be mentioned in the book.
There's one other possibility. Just before Imai went out of business it produced a Constitution that was about that size - a completely different kit. It got distributed in the U.S. (briefly) by Monogram; I don't think it ever appeared here in a Revell box, but I suppose it's possible.
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