Overview

• The Eagle is moored at Victoria’s Coast Guard pier as part of a 14-week voyage that embarked 150 cadets in Astoria and called at Seattle before its Canadian visit.
• Built in Hamburg in 1936 as the Nazi training ship Horst Wessel, the vessel was awarded to the United States as a World War II prize in 1946.
• Some 150 Coast Guard Academy cadets and 60 permanent crew are living aboard to learn seamanship, teamwork and risk management under sail.
• Free public tours will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on July 16–17 at 25 Huron Street, allowing visitors to explore the ship’s decks and towering rigging.
• The stop serves to strengthen interoperability between the U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards in areas such as search and rescue, fisheries enforcement and pollution response.