Thursday, August 15, 2013

Do you know what you know?

The German training ship Horst Wessel WIX-327

Named after:
Horst Wessel (1907-1930) was a Nazi party member, SA Stormtrooper and purported pimp who was killed fighting German Communists in 1930.  Some months before he died, Wessel had written the verses to what would become the "Horst Wessel Lied" but it first gained popular currency when a choir of Stormtroopers performed it at his funeral. It was later recorded, and in 1931 it became the official anthem of the Nazi Party, played alongside Deutschland über Alles at all official occasions.




Do you know her?  Her figure head was a eagle clasping the Swastika in it's talons.

Her figure head was on display for a while at the Mystic Seaport before it disappeared.
The ship itself...


Before modifications



After a collision


That's correct, she's the sailing barque "Eagle"

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