The Eagle swoops in for Bermuda visit

The majestic US Coast Guard cutter Eagle will sail into Hamilton this weekend for a short stop on her way across to Europe.

‘America’s Tall Ship’, as she has been dubbed is used to teach officer candidates and cadets seamanship skills and has visited the island on a number of previous occasions.

She was built in Germany in 1936 and is one of three sailing-training ships operated by the pre-World War II German Navy.

At the end of the war the vessel was taken as ‘war repatriation’ by the US, and has been based out of Connecticut ever since.

She is due to arrive in Bermuda on Saturday and will remain in the capital until she heads off to France on July 2.

Just yesterday the tug boat Stephanie Dawn came into the Commercial Dock in Dockyard to pick up a barge as well as tow cranes.

The barge is one of two that has been used to ferry construction equipment to and around the island for the Heritage Wharf renovation project.

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Stephanie Dawn is expected to leave the island tomorrow and start her trip back to New Jersey.

While today it’s the usual influx of 7,000 visitors into Dockyard on board the Celebrity Summit and the Norwegian Breakaway.

And these two liners will be replaced by the Explorer of the Seas and the Norwegian Dawn on Saturday and Sunday respectively.

Finally the Somers Isles gets in to Hamilton today with five mobile shower units that will be used during the Island Games at schools across the island and the Bermuda Islander will arrive tomorrow morning.