General History: USCGC Eagle - America's Tall Ship
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- Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2024
- Taking a ship as a war prize was once a common occurrence, though it fell out of favor in the 20th century for the most part. The story of America's Tall Ship, USCGC Eagle, is one that bucks this trend.
Taken as a prize from Germany and put into service as a permanent training vessel in the US Coast Guard. Eagle is approaching her centennial of service and shows no signs of stopping any time soon. That isn't a bad run for any ship, certainly not for a war prize.
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I am glad you detailed why on Earth one would want to use a sailing ship for training, because it is counter-intuitive on many levels. However, when you go through the details of just what goes into a sailing ship's operation, it really becomes sublimely logical. I think we honestly need more ships like Eagle to be where all sailors get their basic training, six months or more, before graduating to more conventional ships to get advanced training in specialist skills like engineering, electronics, and more. It would only make an already great fleet even better, and save a bit of money on fuel as well!
7:03 ...great view to see the 2 beautiful ships together...! 🙂
I saw an article a couple years ago about one of the German sailors who served aboard her then moved to the United States after the war and saw her a few years later and had to turn around a visit. Also was excited to see her
Served 4 years in the Barque Eagle division with the Sea Cadet Corps! Saw her once even!
My grandfather was trained on this ship during ww2 era, he was what they called a 90 day wonder in short supply of officers thank you so much for this video
I remember reading an article where a German who trained aboard Horst Wessel as a cadet later immigrated to the USA and then saw the renamed Eagle sailing past the shore of his new home. So I'm happy to see a video about this lovely ship.
I'm a Broadband technician by trade and a couple of years ago I had an install for a gentleman who had been a corpsman on the prize crew that brought her home from Germany after World War II. Delightful gentleman and full of wonderful stories not just about being on the prize crew for her but from his service all over the world during and immediately after the war.
thankyou for this... you keep expanding my knowledge in different ways. Keep it up
I have seen and been aboard Eagle here in CT a few times and I remember seeing in NYC when she was ahead of the parade of tall ships.
I toured her during one of her German trips in 1989 at Hamburg Harbor's 800th Birthday celebration along with most over her sister ships.
An interesting history lesson and a nice change from the status quo.
Keep up the great work, my friend.
Respect from the UK.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Take a look at the scifi novel "Island in the Sea of Time" by S.M. Stirling (and its sequels) for how valuable EAGLE can be in a crisis.
My best friend used to sail on that ship in the 80's.