USCGC Eagle

The USCGC Eagle (ex Horst Wessel) is a three masted barque serving as a school ship for the United States Coast Guard. Home ported in New London, Connecticut, she is one of the sister ships of the Gorch Fock.

Trivia

The Eagle has a significant presence in the Nantucket series of books by S. M. Stirling, in which she is visiting the island of Nantucket when an as-yet-unexplained event catapults the entire population of the island, including the Eagle and her crew, back to the Iron Age. Although the Eagle described in the books is based on the real-world ship, all of her crew is fictional. In the series, the ship is captained by Marian Alston, an African-American lesbian.

Related Topics:
Nantucket series - S. M. Stirling - Nantucket - Iron Age - African-American - Lesbian

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