The historic U.S. Coast Guard cutter “USCGC Eagle” will visit Puerto Vallarta. Also known as “America’s Tall Ship,” it will arrive in Puerto Vallarta on May 9th for a goodwill visit, as part of its academic and cultural mission.
The training ship known as “America’s Tall Ship” will dock on May 9. Built in Germany in the 1930s, it became a U.S. war prize. Hitler, Kennedy, and Nixon were on board.
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle is a ship with a unique history. It has been boarded by both Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler and U.S. Presidents Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon. It was built in Germany in the 1930s and served in World War II. It became a U.S. war prize. Since then, it has served as a training ground for its cadets. Also known as “America’s Tall Ship,” it will arrive in Puerto Vallarta on May 9th for a goodwill visit, as part of its academic and cultural mission.
The National Port System Administration (ASIPONA) reported that the USCGC Eagle will be in Puerto Vallarta from May 9th to 12th, docking at Pier 2. The Press Office of the U.S. Consulate General in Guadalajara has issued invitations to an exclusive media presentation. Communications, local, naval, and military authorities on the day of its arrival at 11:00 a.m. The public has not yet been informed of visiting hours, as its arrival represents a unique opportunity to capture images of this nearly 90-year-old maritime treasure, get up close and personal with this impressive vessel, and chat with its crew.
It was built in the Hamburg shipyards in 1936 and launched on June 13 of the same year. The famous photograph was taken during this ceremony, showing a shipyard worker, August Landmesser, refusing to give the Nazi salute at the ceremony, in the presence of Hitler and the mother of Horst Wessel, its builder, who christened the new ship with a bottle of champagne.
Originally built as the training ship Horst Wessel in 1936, it served to train German sailors in sailing techniques until it was decommissioned at the start of World War II. It returned to service in 1942 after being fitted with anti-aircraft weapons. At the end of the war, it passed into American hands as plunder and war reparations.
Today, the Eagle is the training ship for the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and is the only ship of its class actively serving in the U.S. government, home ported in New London, Connecticut. It is a three-masted vessel measuring 90 meters long, with a riveted steel hull, and the raised forecastle and quarterdeck are made of quarter-inch steel covered with 3 inches (76 mm) of teak, as are the weather decks. It has 23 sails measuring over 22,000 square feet and six miles of rigging. The tallest mast is 150 feet, roughly the equivalent of a 15-story building, and its maximum speed is 17 knots at sea.
A symbol of international collaboration, it serves as a training vessel for 153 Coast Guard Academy cadets and Officer Candidates, learning to sail the old-fashioned way, with 230 personnel on board. Its secondary mission is to represent the Coast Guard and the U.S. to the public and the international community. In this role, it has earned the nickname “America’s Tallest Ship.”
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