USCGC Eagle (WIX-327), formerly the Horst Wessel and also known as the Barque Eagle, is a 295-foot (90 m) barque used as a training cutter for future officers of the United States Coast Guard. She is one of only two active commissioned sailing vessels in the United States military today, along with USS Constitution which is ported in Boston Harbor. She is the seventh Coast Guard cutter to bear the name in a line dating back to 1792, including the Revenue Cutter Eagle.
USCGC Eagle under full sail in 2013 in the Caribbean Sea
Image: USCGC Eagle Emblem
Horst Wessel launching
Horst Wessel in 1936
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts and fore mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost mast rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a square-rigged sail above.
Three-masted barque (US Revenue Cutter Salmon P. Chase, 1878–1907)
The tall ship Elissa is a three-masted barque in Galveston.
Russian Sedov at the Kantasatama Harbour in Kotka, Finland, during the Tall Ships’ Races 2017
A 1993 replica of HM Bark Endeavour