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An extremely fine and detailed fully rigged builders model of the American Coastguard Sail Training ship 'Eagle' (Ex. 'Horst Wessel') -- 19 x 34in (48.2 x 86.3cm)
With masts, yards with hand holds and toe ropes, standing and running rigging with scale silver plated blocks and fittings, chains and bottle screws and deck details including figurehead carved in the form of an Eagle, anchors with 'D' chains, winches and anchor davit, capstan, deck rails, companionways, belaying rails and pins, engine room lights, ventilator and engine controls, gratings, two clinker built ship's boats in chocks, ship's wheel, binnacle and telegraph, aft teak capped deck rail, two canvas covered life boats in davits and amny other details. Finished in green, white and varnish with silver plated fittings and mounted on two turned wood columns on mahogany plinth (later). Glazed mahogany cover.
Two sailing training ships were built by Blohm and Voss, Hamburg 1936/7 following the original 'Gorch Fock' of 1933. They were both barque rigged, 89m long and displacing 1634 tons, with auxiliary diesel engines. 'Albert Schlageter' was transfered to Brazil; the 'Horst Wessel' was taken over by the U.S.A. where she became the U.S. Coast Guard Sail Training Ship 'Eagle'.
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With masts, yards with hand holds and toe ropes, standing and running rigging with scale silver plated blocks and fittings, chains and bottle screws and deck details including figurehead carved in the form of an Eagle, anchors with 'D' chains, winches and anchor davit, capstan, deck rails, companionways, belaying rails and pins, engine room lights, ventilator and engine controls, gratings, two clinker built ship's boats in chocks, ship's wheel, binnacle and telegraph, aft teak capped deck rail, two canvas covered life boats in davits and amny other details. Finished in green, white and varnish with silver plated fittings and mounted on two turned wood columns on mahogany plinth (later). Glazed mahogany cover.
Two sailing training ships were built by Blohm and Voss, Hamburg 1936/7 following the original 'Gorch Fock' of 1933. They were both barque rigged, 89m long and displacing 1634 tons, with auxiliary diesel engines. 'Albert Schlageter' was transfered to Brazil; the 'Horst Wessel' was taken over by the U.S.A. where she became the U.S. Coast Guard Sail Training Ship 'Eagle'.
See colour illustration
出版
'The Skipper and the Eagle' by Capt. Gordon McGowan USCG Ret. published by D.Van Norstrand Company Inc. Princetown, New Jersey, 1960.