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Re: Fleet Week
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lugnet.pirates
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Thu, 23 May 2002 13:33:55 GMT
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That's the beauty of Lugnet. I didn't have a clue what I was taking a photo
of, but Lindsay did!
In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> That's the Coast Guard training ship, U.S.S. Eagle, whose
> name is reserved for the USCG (thus why you'll see no Navy
> ships named that) after the War of 1812 in which a tiny Revenue
> Marine cutter named Eagle held off a British force for 24
> hours. It is the USA's only class A tall ship; ironically
> it was a German tall ship used to train Kriegsmarine cadets
> (named Horst Wessel then), and it was captured and allocated
> to the USA as a war prize after the war. So it's also almost
> 70 years old!
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> If you're interested in the ship, here's a link:
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> http://www.uscg.mil/datasheet/wixtrain.htm
> In lugnet.pirates, Erik Olson writes:
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=175538
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| (...) And though it's posted in .pirates, it is in fact an *anti*- pirate! That's the Coast Guard training ship, U.S.S. Eagle, whose name is reserved for the USCG (thus why you'll see no Navy ships named that) after the War of 1812 in which a tiny (...) (24 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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