Tall Ships 2015: Barque Eagle
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- With its distinctive orange stripe, the Coast Guard Barque Eagle has flown the American flag around the world as the training vessel of the Coast Guard Academy. However, John Brady, President of the Independence Seaport Museum, explains that the Eagle had foreign beginnings under the name Horst Wessel.
"She was built in Germany in the 1930's. She was taken as a war prize after World War Two."
Given good wind, the Eagle should bloom with sail on the Delaware.
The Tall Ships Festival will take place on the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden from June 25-28.
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