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Coast Guard Barque Eagle Returns to San Francisco After 16 Years, Opens Free Public Tours

This visit highlights the vessel’s function as a floating classroom serving future Coast Guard officers during a six-port leg of its 14-week West Coast tour

Overview

  • Visitors can tour the 295-foot ship at Pier 17 near the Exploratorium daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. starting June 23.
  • Built by Blohm and Voss in 1936 as the German Navy’s Horst Wessel, the vessel was transferred to the U.S. as a World War II reparation.
  • Eagle serves as the only active square-rigger in U.S. government service, boasting three masts, over 22,000 square feet of sail and six miles of rigging.
  • Since 1946, the Barque Eagle has functioned as a floating classroom training future Coast Guard officers in traditional maritime skills.
  • This San Francisco stop is the sixth port call on its 14-week West Coast tour, and the ship will return for another series of public tours starting July 25.