Coast Guard tall ship to visit Philadelphia

Coast Guard tall ship to visit Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — The Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, “America’s Tall Ship,” is scheduled to arrive in Philadelphia Thursday. At 295 feet in length, the Eagle is the largest tall ship flying the stars and stripes and the only active square-rigger in U.S. government service. Constructed in 1936 by the Blohm and Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, and originally commissioned as the Horst Wessel...