Item  #  B2603

USCG Eagle 28"

• 28" Long x 6" Wide x 18" High (1:100 scale). 5 Lbs.
• Built with rare, high quality woods such as cherry, birch, maple and rosewood.
• Planked wooden hull.
• Masterfully stitched, thick canvass sails that hold their shape and do not wrinkle.
• Meticulously painted to the actual USCG Eagle.
• Rests perfectly on a large wood base between (marble base with arched metal dolphins available).
• Requires hundreds of hours to build from scratch (not from a model kit) by our master artisans.
• To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as the original plans, drawings, paintings and pictures.

The Eagle bears a name that goes back to the early history of the United States' oldest continuous seagoing service. The first Eagle was commissioned in 1792, just two years after the formation of the Revenue Marine, the forerunner of today's Coast Guard.

Today's Eagle, the seventh in a long line of proud cutters to bear the name, was built in 1936 by the Blohm & Voss Shipyard, Hamburg, Germany, as a training vessel for German Naval Cadets. It was commissioned Horst Wessel and following World War II was taken as a war prize by the United States. On May 15, 1946, the baroque was commissioned into U.S. Coast Guard service as the Eagle and sailed from Bremerhaven, Germany to New London, Connecticut.

Eagle serves as a seagoing classroom for approximately 175 cadets and instructors from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. It is on the decks and rigging of the Eagle that the young men and women of the Academy get their first taste of salt air and life at sea. From this experience they develop a respect for the elements that will be with them throughout their lifetime. They are tested and challenged, often to the limits of their endurance. Working aloft they meet fear and learn to overcome it. The training cadets receive under sail has proven to be an invaluable asset during their subsequent Coast Guard careers.