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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.
In total, fifty-eight 95-footers were built for the Coast Guard and the Navy throughout the 1950s and early-1960s. The yard continued to overhaul aging Coast Guard and Navy ships. Such cutters were Chilula, Avoyel, Dexter, and Commanche. In March, 1958, the Coast Guard Cutter Azalea, a 100' buoy tender, was launched at the yard. [3]
USCGC Eagle: 1 295' None USCGC Eagle (WIX-327): Eagle is home ported at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. It is used for training voyages for Coast Guard Academy cadets and Coast Guard officer candidates. USCGC Eagle was built in Germany as the Horst Wessel, and was taken by the United States as a war reparation in 1945. USCGC ...
Jul. 29—The U.S. Coast Guard barque Eagle, the 295-foot-long tall ship the Coast Guard Academy uses for cadet training, is scheduled to arrive at City Pier in New London on Friday. It will be ...
USCGC Eagle may refer to: . USCGC Eagle (1925), was a "100-foot" Eagle-class patrol boat, commissioned in 1925 and transferred to the U.S. Navy in 1936 USCGC Eagle (WIX-327), is a Gorch Fock-class barque originally commissioned as Segelschulschiff Horst Wessel, a German training vessel taken as war reparations by the United States and commissioned into the Coast Guard in 1946; she is still in ...
This article contains a list of United States Coast Guard stations in the United States within the United States Coast Guard's nine districts. There are currently many stations located throughout the country along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean , Gulf of Mexico , Pacific Ocean and Great Lakes .
Munising Coast Guard Station [92] No N/A N/A CG-36528 [93] Muskegon Michigan USS Silversides Submarine Museum [94] U.S. Coast Guard 1915–Present: USCGC McLane: No N/A N/A Northbrooke Illinois Coast Guard Park [95] U.S. Coast Guard 1915–Present: Coast Guard Park No N/A N/A Niagara Falls New York Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage ...
The emblem is a blue eagle from the coat of arms of the United States on a white field. Above the eagle are the words "United States Coast Guard" below the eagle is the motto, "Semper Paratus" and the inscription "1790." [116] The Service Mark was developed to distinguish Coast Guard cutters from other government and commercial ships.