For four generations of Coast Guard cadets, getting their “sea legs” and literally “learning the ropes” has come aboard the Coast Guard sailing ship Eagle. Cadets graduate to serve on icebreakers and ...
Cmdr. Gordon McGowan, a teacher of seamanship at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) in New London, Connecticut, was sent to the bombed-out city to claim the ship from the derelict German navy in ...