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USCGC Eagle (WIX-327), formerly Horst Wessel and also known as Barque Eagle, is a 295-foot (90 m) barque used as a training cutter for future officers of the United States Coast Guard. She is one of only two active commissioned sailing vessels in the United States military today, along with USS Constitution which is ported in Boston Harbor.
The Coast Guard cutter USCGC Sledge (WLIC-75303), a 75-foot construction tender homeported in Baltimore. USCGC Anvil (WLIC-75301) USCGC Hammer (WLIC-75302) USCGC Sledge (WLIC-75303) USCGC Mallet (WLIC-75304) USCGC Vise (WLIC-75305) USCGC Clamp (WLIC-75306) USCGC Wedge (WLIC-75307) USCGC Spike (WLIC-75308) USCGC Hatchet (WLIC-75309)
The Coast Guard was to purchase the Bell Eagle Eye UAV as part of the Deepwater program, but this has been cancelled. [29] The Coast Guard is currently preparing to launch a small UAS competition for the Legend-class NSC and future Heritage-class cutter. [30]
The Revenue Marine and the Revenue Cutter Service, as it was known variously throughout the late 18th and the 19th centuries, referred to its ships as cutters.The term is English in origin and refers to a specific type of vessel, namely, "a small, decked ship with one mast and bowsprit, with a gaff mainsail on a boom, a square yard and topsail, and two jibs or a jib and a staysail."
Many of Eagle ' s past commanders have gone on to serve with distinction, include ADM Robert J. Papp Jr., who served as the 24th Commandant of the Coast Guard from 2010–2014, and VADM James C. Irwin, who served as vice commandant from 1986 to 1988. In all, nie former Eagle commanders and two Horst Wessel commanders achieved flag rank. [1]
Joining the Eagle during the weekend-long festival will be the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey and the S/V Denis Sullivan. Eagle to lead Portsmouth Tall Ships festival July 26 to July 28. Here are ...
[57] [58] In March 2023, the Coast Guard's proposed FY2024 budget requested $17.1 million in procurement funding for the NSC program for post-delivery activities for the 10th and 11th NSCs, class-wide activities that included test and evaluation, and program close-out support, thereby suggesting it is not pursuing the option of a 12th cutter. [59]
A U.S. Coast Guard C-144 Ocean Sentry circles above Cay Sal Bank in the Bahamas Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. Other areas in the hemisphere also are on the receiving end of the mass flight from Haiti.