US Coast Guard tall ship Eagle coming to Rockland

The U.S. Coast Guard’s tall ship The Eagle is coming to Rockland this summer.

The Eagle is tentatively scheduled to arrive on Friday, Aug. 2 . According to the Maine Lighthouse Museum, the ship will moor at the Rockland Coast Guard station, and the visit will coincide with the Maine Lobster Festival.

The 295-foot, three-masted barque, based in New London, Connecticut, is used as a training vessel for academy cadets and future Coast Guard officers. It is one of two active commissioned sailing vessels in the U.S. military, the other being the USS Constitution, a three-masted frigate known as “Old Ironsides,” based in Boston.

The Eagle has been to Rockland before. Notably, during a visit in 2022, it was hit by the schooner Grace Bailey , resulting in $100,000 in damage to the two ships.