We just heard from the good folks at PortSide NewYork that the US Coast Guard barque Eagle will be open to the public for the first time ever in Brooklyn, beginning Friday afternoon and continuing Saturday and Sunday at Pier 7 at the foot of Atlantic Avenue. The ship is wrapping up its Summer Training Cruise which included visits to Waterford, Ireland; London, England; Reykjavik, Iceland; Halifax, Nova Scotia and Hamburg, Germany.
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle and the 221st anniversary of the U.S. Coast Guard’s founding, the crew of the Eagle is also holding a photography contest for the best photo of the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle in New York. Go to The Eagle in New York photo contest to learn more.
The schedule for the Eagle during her stay in New York is:
Public visiting hours:
Pier 7, Port Authority Brooklyn Marine Terminal, foot of Atlantic Avenue, enter next to Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6
- Fri 8/5 2-5pm
- Sat 8/6 1-7pm
- Sun 8/7 10am-7pm
The Eagle was built at the Blohm and Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, Germany in 1936, and commissioned as Horst Wessel, it is one of three sail-training ships operated by the pre-World War II German Navy. At the close of the war, the ship was taken as a war reparation by the U.S., re-commissioned as the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle and sailed to New London, Connecticut, which has been its homeport ever since.
PortSide NewYork is a young, innovative non-profit organization creating diverse programs about and on the BlueSpace, the water part of the waterfront, aimed at fostering waterborne transportation, the greenest way to move people and goods, and providing educational, cultural, and social service programs for the community on a water theme.