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Sept. 12, 2014 - The USCGC Eagle, based in New London, CT, is a training ship for Coast Guard Academy cadets.  The ship was originally the Horst Wessel, a training vessel in the German Navy, and was taken as reparations following World War II.
Specifications:
Built: 1936 by Blohm and Voss Shipyard, Hamburg.
Length:  231 feet at waterline.
Beam:  39.1 feet.
Main and fore masts:  147.3 feet.
Draft, fully loaded:  16 feet.
Displacement:  1,824 tons.
Speed:  17 knots under full sail.
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