[Old Sarge]

Fascinating trivia about the Eagle that I didn't know!

She was a Nazi prize from WW2

[jazusamo]

Thanks for the link, Sarge, that’ll be interesting reading.

[FFranco]

Horst Wessel was a young Nazi killed by Communists in 1930. The Nazis glorified him as a hero and named their fight song, the Horst Wessel-Lied, after him. He wrote the lyrics before he was killed. And, they named this training ship after him.