portland council

Navy League Portland Council

5:00 Arrival 5:30 Social Hour 6:30 Navy League program USS Portland, USS Oregon status Ship & base tour schedules

7:00 Buffet dinner 7:30 US Coast Guard Eagle presentation Jake Jacobs, Board Member, Navy League, Portland Council

Ken Bray, President Gary Piercy, Vice President Navy League board of directors

Summer dinner and program August 17, 2019

Welcome!

US Coast Guard Barque Eagle

America’s oldest commissioned active military ship

Jake Jacobs 2019

New London, CT

Coast Guard Academy

Two missions • Training • Public relations

Thames River

Eagle’s Crew

7 officers, 50 enlisted +150 Cadets

6 to 8 weeks aboard in 4 years

Captain Matt Meilstrup

A True Sailing Ship

Royal Topgallent Upper topsail Lower topsail Course

1200 HP MTU 8 cylinder

Replaced Caterpillar 1000 HP in 2018

Diesel Power

My Cruises

August 19-30, 2015 Portsmouth VA - Baltimore Inner harbor

March 17-29, 2016 Savanna to Baltimore Curtis Bay

April 29-May 5-2017 Little Creek, VA to New London, CT

August 11-18, 2017 Pier 86 NYC to Little Creek, VA

2019 Cruise

April 30 - May 12, 2019 Portsmouth UK Oslo, Norway Kiel, Germany

1,200 miles

Training cadets

Duties aboard

Climbing the rigging

Hosting the sails

Holding the course

6 sailors in heavy seas

Celestial Navigation

Apparent noon with Sextant

36°50.5’N 73°40.1’W

Dead reckoning

Reveille

The racks

2+ workouts per day

The head

Water tight hatches

Swim call in the Gulf Stream

Shark patrol

82 deg

Polishing & Painting

Captain Meilstrup

Shipshape for tours

Shine the brass

Painting training room

Public Relations

• Public ship tours

• Private receptions on deck

• Dignitary dinners

America’s Tall Ship

Dignitary Receptions

Wardroom

2019 Ports of call

New London CT Savannah GA Curtis Bay MD Portsmouth UK Oslo, Norway Kiel, Germany Copenhagen DK Antwerp Belgium

Cherbourg France Rouen France The Netherlands Azores Bermuda Portsmouth NH Salem MA New York Philadelphia New London CT

March 9 – October 6

Portsmouth England

US Ambassador to UK

Social and speeches

Gourmet Delights

Leaving Portsmouth UK

White cliffs of Dover

Oslo Norway

Norway Minister of Defense

Akershus Fortress 1299

Kiel Germany

Boat arrival German officers ride in

Boarding officials

Captain Wetters

1938 - Captain Wetters father

2019

81 years later…..

Naming of the USS Quentin Walsh DDG 132

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Karl Schultz Quentin Walsh family members – Navy Cross

Guided missile destroyer Honoring USCG WWII hero

Aboard USCG Eagle in Cherbourg France June 6, 2019

Change of Command New London, CT July 27

Capt Meilstrup and Capt Turdo (29th commander)

Vice Adm. Scott Buschman Presents Legion of Merit

85 port calls 3,300 trainees 250,000 visitors 75th D-Day celebrations 150 Canada anniversary $28M upgrade

2015-2019

The Eagle’s history

Kriegsmarine Horst Wessel

Blohm and Voss Hamburg, Germany Built 83 years ago Hull # 608 Hull #609 Bismark

German ship

Horst Wessel

Who was / What was Horst Wessel?

Why was this name chosen for the ship?

Horst

Horst Wessel Nazi Storm Trooper

Nazi anthem composer

“Assassinated” 1930

Age 22

Sieg Heil

Die Fahne hoc Raise The Flag

Kriegsmarine Horst Wessel

June 13, 1936 Christening

Christened by Horst Wessel’s mother

Hitler in attendance

The Barque of Saviors

1938 - Hitler with Admiral Raeder and Captain Thiele

• Training • Transport • Anti-Aircraft

Six 20MM guns Shot down five allied aircraft

1936 - 1945 Seamanship Training

Submarine Cadets and Petty Officers

Horst Wessel

Battle of Drøbak Sound Norway

Eagle’s southbound waypoints

Three 11” guns facing south

Torpedo bunker

Heavy cruiser Blücher Sunk with 50% of crew

Former Horst Wessel Captain Thiele Cruiser #2 - Turned armada around

German submarines

1,200 U-boats built 784 were lost

Combat ended May 5, 1945 cease fire U-853 Sunk May 6, 1945 - Block Island, Rhode Island

• Enigma code broken • US anti-sub warfare

May 7, surrender

Many sub captains trained on Horst Wessel

Final loss….

Horst Wessel 1946

Horst Wessel damaged

Bremerhaven, Germany War had ended…..

1946 World War II Reparation

Bremerhaven, Germany

USCG Ship Captain CDR Gordon McGowan

Commissioned May 15, 1946

5 months of repairs --Sails, lines, rudder, engine, eagle, paint

US Coast Guard Eagle

1946 Bremerhaven

Kapitänleutenant Schnibbe Captain McGowen

German crew

7 USCG officers and 55 crew

9 German officers and 40 crew

Bremerhaven Falmouth, UK Funchal, Madeira Bermuda New York New London, CT May 30 – July 9

Hurricane

The Skipper & the Eagle

USCG Captain Gordon McGowan

Author

Published 1960 & 1998

Former Captain of the Eagle Sailed to Germany 1996

Spoke with him aboard Eagle in 2017

Captain Papp Sea stories with former German crew

Afterword by Admiral Robert Papp

A Perfect Lady by Tido Holtkamp Is an excellent pictorial history with many black and white photos

Presidential Visits

The Eagle has hosted Presidents Truman and Kennedy Most US presidents have visited the USCG Eagle

9/20/1952

9/15/1962

Morrie Craig, Ph.D Portland Navy League

US Coast Guard Barque Eagle WIX 327 NRCB

295 feet long 39 feet beam Steel hull ½” 1700 tons 16 foot draft 23 sails 2,300 feet of sail 192 lines 50 full time crew 150 trainees 17 knots under sail (20 mph)

12 knots under power

Captain Meilstrup - Best job in the Coast Guard- I make a positive

impact on the next generation of Coast Guard officers and enlisted

crew, all while representing the nation, the department & the service.

Executive Officer LCDR Brooke Millard

As a university professor I taught lessons of English

As a leader on the Eagle I teach lessons of life.

Chief Kevin Johnson

I help the cadets develop and expand a positive attitude as they

accomplish seemingly impossible tasks aboard the ship.

Positive attitude cannot be taken from you. Has to be given away.

Positive attitude = Positive life.

Officer comments (paraphrased)

Video

6 minute video of operations aboard USCG Eagle

On YouTube

https://youtu.be/XmEAt3rbIZ8

Anchors Aweigh

jake@oravi.org

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