Thanks for the info Tim, my Granddaddy loved ships of all kinds, but he was partial to sailing ships. His daddy put him on a merchant marine ship when he was ten to learn the trade. He never left the sea agian till he married Grandma, then in '40 s they moved to Charleston, S.C. Where he became a harbor pilot, until he retired in '65.
"The ship was built in 1936 as the second of three similar vessels (Gorch Fock class) at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany and used to train recruits for service in the Kriegsmarine. (At a later date, two further copies of this design were completed.) She was launched on 13 June 1936 and named for the well-known member of the Nazi Party, Horst Wessel. Commissioned by Adolf Hitler himself as a school ship for the German Navy (Reichsmarine) on 17 September 1936, she was homeported in Kiel on the Baltic Sea."
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http://www.hnsa.org/ships/eagle.htm
"The ship was built in 1936 as the second of three similar vessels (Gorch Fock class) at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany and used to train recruits for service in the Kriegsmarine. (At a later date, two further copies of this design were completed.) She was launched on 13 June 1936 and named for the well-known member of the Nazi Party, Horst Wessel. Commissioned by Adolf Hitler himself as a school ship for the German Navy (Reichsmarine) on 17 September 1936, she was homeported in Kiel on the Baltic Sea."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Eagle_(WIX-327)
http://www.festivalofsail.org/gallery.asp
*As soon as I convert my images of the event, I will share.
* Only if they look good LOL