Posted on 08/03/2007 6:00:18 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
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And helo’s! The helos’ are what we who served on small boats can relate to best.
Thanks, man!!
Happy Friday...
*Hugs back*
Been a busy day, I was on nights the last three nights :-(, came home this AM and got about 4 hours sleep and then went over to The Kid’s house and mixed and poured 15 bags of concrete mix for one of the sidewalks on the wall project.
I should have done the CG pics tonight but I is kind a beet, we get ‘em tomorrow night I reckon. Will try not to forget camera so I can get another final pic of the wall
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Oh.. I give up! http://octavedoc.com/Music/ASatnight/JrBrown/10%20Long%20Walk%20Back%20To%20San%20Antone%20(Live).mp3
It’s gonna be grand.
Heh! it’ll be 100 here by then L0L
Last time I spoke to a Coast Guard officer he told me the coast was secure. I believe him.
I praye that wasn’t my clssmate, he’s pentagon material all the way. Super smart, and not just dork-ass engineer book smart, he’d hotwire anyones car on a fifty below vermont morning to get them to class on time, and whack a dozen shots with the best of the best. Teal salt of the eath goos shit kind of guy. If he’s gone, I’m pissed. I’ll pick up arms to go fight the scumbags, hell be damned.
MEGA-SIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL! there is one coastie for every 8 miles of coastline. There are more cops in NYC than coasties.
Eagle, 1946
ex-SNS Horst Wessel; WIX-327
Horst Wessel (1907-1930) was a Nazi party member, SA Stormtrooper and purported pimp who was killed fighting German Communists in 1930. Some months before he died, Wessel had written the verses to what would become the "Horst Wessel Lied" but it first gained popular currency when a choir of Stormtroopers performed it at his funeral. It was later recorded, and in 1931 it became the official anthem of the Nazi Party, played alongside Deutschland über Alles at all official occasions.Eagle: Any of various large diurnal birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, including members of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus, characterized by a powerful hooked bill, keen vision, long broad wings, and strong soaring flight.
Builder: Blohm & Voss Shipyards, Hamburg, Germany
Commissioned: 1936 (German Navy); 15 May 1946 (U.S. Coast Guard)
Length: 295'
Beam: 39' 1"
Draft: 17' 6" full load
Displacement: 1,784 tons full load
Powerplant: 1 x Maschinenfabrik-Augsburg-Nurnberg diesel direct reversible with reduction gear producing 750 horsepower (1965); 1 Caterpillar diesel engine (1980)
Top speed: 17 knots (under sail) maximum
10 knots (diesel engine only) maximum; 7.5 knots cruising with 5,450 mile range under diesel
power only.Complement: 19 officers, 46 crew, 175 cadets and instructors
Radar: 1 x AN/SPS-23; AN/SPA-4 (1965)
Sonar: 1 x AN/UQN-1D
Armament: None
Cutter History:
The Eagle is a three-masted sailing barque with 21,350 square feet of sail. It is home ported at the CG Academy, New London, Connecticut. It is the only active commissioned sailing vessel in the U.S. maritime services. She is one of five such training barques in world. Remarkably, her surviving sister ships include the Mircea of Romania, Sagres II of Portugal, Gorch Fock of Germany, and Tovarich of Russia.
Today's Eagle, the seventh in a long line of proud cutters to bear the name, was built in 1936 by the Blohm & Voss Shipyard, Hamburg, Germany, as a training vessel for German Navy cadets. It was commissioned Horst Wessel and served as a training ship for the Kriegsmarine throughout World War II. Click here to read a translated-diary from a German naval cadet who trained aboard the Horst Wessel in 1937.
Following World War II, the Horst Wessel, in the age-old custom of capture and seizure, was taken as a war prize by the United States. Initially, the Soviet Union selected Horst Wessel during the division of Nazi vessels by the victorious Allies. The four available sailing ships had been divided into three lots--two large merchant ships being grouped together. The Soviets drew number 1, Great Britain number 2, and the U.S. number 3. Before the results of the draw were officially announced, the U.S representative, through quiet diplomacy, convinced the Soviets to trade draws.
And so, on May 15, 1946, the German barque was commissioned into U.S. Coast Guard service as the Eagle and sailed from Bremerhaven, Germany to New London, Connecticut. On her voyage to the United States she followed Columbus's route across the mid-Atlantic. She rode out a hurricane during her trip and arrived in New London safely. She weathered another hurricane in September 1954 while enroute to Bermuda. She hosted OpSail in New York as part of the World's Fair in 1964. She again hosted OpSail in 1976 during the United States' Bicentennial celebration. She hosted the centennial celebration for the Statue of Liberty in 1986 as well.
One of the major controversies regarding the cutter was generated when the Coast Guard decided to add the "racing stripe" to her otherwise unadorned hull in mid-1976. She was the last cutter so painted and many in the sailing community decried the new paint job.
Eagle serves as a seagoing classroom for approximately 175 cadets and instructors from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Sailing in Eagle, cadets handle more than 20,000 square feet of sail and 5 miles of rigging. Over 200 lines must be coordinated during a major ship maneuver. The sails can provide the equivalent of several thousand through-shaft horsepower. The ship readily takes to the task for which it was designed. Eagle's hull is built of steel, four-tenths of an inch thick. It has two full length steel decks with a platform deck below and a raised forecastle and quarterdeck. The weather decks are three-inch-thick teak over steel.
Photographs (click on caption to view photo):
SNS Horst Wessel on the day of her launch, Hamburg, Germany, 1936.
SNS Horst Wessel under sail, May, 1938; photo by Willi Schafer.
The newly commissioned U.S. Coast Guard training vessel Eagle under sail, 1946.
President Harry S. Truman at the wheel of Eagle, 1953.
Eagle, under sail in high winds, cadet cruise, 1954.
Eagle under sail, port side view, no date (1960's?), color photo.
August 15, 1962--President John F. Kennedy addressing cadets while on board the EAGLE.
Eagle in New York Harbor near the Statue of Liberty during the Bicentennial Celebration, 1976.
Eagle under sail, 1995, color photo.
- Click here to access the diary/logbook of a German naval cadet who sailed aboard Horst Wessel in 1937. Click here for a translated version.
- Click here to access a Cruise Book from Horst Wessel's 1937 cruise to East Prussia. [Recommend right clicking to download as it is a large file--87 MB)
Sources:
Robert Scheina, Coast Guard Cutters and Craft, 1946-1990 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1990), pp. 116-117.
Other Sources:
Donovan, Frank. The Cutter. New York: Barnes and Noble 1961.
Drummond, Malwin. Tall Ships: The World of Sail Training. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1976.
Hurst, Alexander A. The Sailing School Ships. New Rochelle: Sportshelf, 1963.
McCutchan, Philip. The Tall Ships. New York: Crown, 1976.
McGowan, Gordon. The Skipper and the Eagle. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1960; reprint, Peekskill, NY: National Maritime Historical Society, 1998.
Norton, William I. Eagle Seamanship: Square-Rigger Sailing. New York: Evans, 1969.
________. Eagle Ventures. New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1970.
Putz, G. Eagle-America’s Sailing Square-Rigger. Chester, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 1986.
Regan, Paul M. and Paul H. Johnson. Eagle Seamanship: A Manual for Square-Rigger Sailing. Annapolis: Naval Institute Proceedings , 1979.
Villiers, Alan. Sailing Eagle: The Story of the Coast Guard's Square-Rigger. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955.
[Historians' Office] [Cutters & Craft List]
[USCG Home Page]
Added: September 2001
Im doin. L0L
Hows about yourself?
Why not? Tonk loved the CG
You did good. Just pace yourself or you’re gonna be worn plumb out!
Take care! Get some rest!
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