Curtis Bay Coast Guard Yard renovates America’s Tall Ship
By Allison Bourg, Staff Writer
By Allison Bourg, Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published
11/19/07
Standing on the deck of the Coast Guard bark Eagle, Grady Bosheers of Riviera Beach gazed at the length of the 295-foot ship and shook his head in awe.
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Lt. Junior Grade Mike Adams on the dry dock at the US Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, in front of the barque Eagle, an 1800 ton nearly 300 ft.-long square rigger built in 1936.
“When you see it from up here, it doesn’t seem that big, does it?” said Mr. Bosheers, a civilian Coast Guard employee. Affectionately dubbed “America’s Tall Ship,” the Eagle — the only square-rigged vessel in U.S. government service — is in dry dock at the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay for the first time since 2002.
The ship, called a “floating diplomat” by some, sailed up the Patapsco River last month and is undergoing renovations until at least...
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