Coast Guard’s Tall Ship to Return Wednesday
The U.S. Coast Guard’s square-rigged ship, the Eagle, will visit Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors this week during its return voyage after representing the United States at Australia’s bicentennial celebration.
The 295-foot-long, steel-hulled bark is scheduled to enter the breakwater at 8 a.m. Wednesday, leading a two-hour parade of nautical craft through the harbors before docking at the Long Beach Naval Station. Prime viewing areas are San Pedro Hill, the Queen Mary and the bluffs from Long Beach Harbor to Belmont Pier.
The public is invited aboard the “tall ship” from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday and from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday. Bus service for visitors will be available between the Long Beach Convention Center and the naval station pier, where the Eagle will be docked.
A seagoing classroom for cadets at the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn., the three-masted ship--built in Germany in 1936 as a training ship for German navy cadets--was seized as a war prize after World War II.
The Eagle will depart from the naval station at 6:30 a.m. Friday for the return voyage to New London via Acapulco and the Panama Canal.
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