Coast Guard Cutter Eagle and USS Constitution get underway in Boston with a 21-gun salute
U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 08/07/2024 07:45 PM EDT
News Release |
U.S. Coast Guard 1st District Northeast |
08/07/2024 07:16 PM EDT
BOSTON — U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle (WIX 327) is scheduled to rendezvous with USS Constitution at approximately 11:30 a.m. Friday, in the vicinity of Castle Island, in Boston, Massachusetts, where the Constitution will fire a 21-gun salute.
Constitution will also fire a 17-gun salute as it passes U.S. Coast Guard Base Boston, the historic site of Edmund Hartt’s Shipyard where Constitution was built and launched on October 21, 1797.