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  • n  a square-rigged sailing ship

  • Only then did Polish Captain Jan Sauer talk about how he and his schooner Zawisza Czarny rescued the survivors of the ill-fated Marques, the stately square-rigger that sank near .
  • The square-rigger has been shelled into half-ruin and her Captain Skalder, whose curses fall "like bars of iron" through his great red block of beard, says he is bound for .
  • Though experiences in a square-rigger would seem to be of small use to the master of a modern liner, Bisset insists there is no better training.
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  • Coast Guard opens tall ship for free tours
    BOSTON - The U.S. Coast Guard says the largest tall ship that flies the stars and stripes will be in Boston and ready for some visitors. Military officials say the cutter Eagle is 295 feet long and the only active square-rigger in U.S. government service.
    July 28, 2013 - Portland Press Herald
  • Coast Guard tall ship ready for visitors in Boston
    BOSTON — The U.S. Coast Guard says the largest tall ship that flies the stars and stripes will be in Boston and ready for some visitors. Military officials say the cutter Eagle is 295 feet long and the only active square-rigger in U.S. government service. Built in 1936 in Germany, the vessel will spend the weekend moored next to the USS Constitution in the Charlestown Navy Yard. Eagle was ...
    July 27, 2013 - Boston Herald
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    BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says the largest tall ship that flies the stars and stripes will be in Boston and ready for some visitors. Military officials say the cutter Eagle is 295 feet long and the only active square-rigger in U.S. government service.
    July 27, 2013 - Greenwich Time

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