The U.S. Coast Guard’s Eagle, also known as “America’s Tall Ship,” will return to San Diego today for the first time since 2008, offering tours of its deck.
The ship, 295 feet in length, is the largest tall ship in service for the United States and the only square-rigger. Eagle is a three-masted barque with more than 22,300 square feet of sail and six miles of rigging. It will be moored at the B Street Pier, 1140 North Harbor Drive, and will offer free public tours this weekend.
Tours are available:
- Friday, Aug. 8 from 1 to 4 p.m.;
- Saturday, Aug. 9 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and
- Sunday, Aug. 10 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The ship was constructed in 1936 by the Blohm and Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, and originally commissioned as the Horst Wessel by the German Navy, and named after a deceased Nazi “Brownshirt” officer. The vessel was a war reparation for the United States following World War II and was recommissioned the Eagle in 1946…