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At approximately 0900 hours on May 26, 1994 the 1750 hp Moran tugboats Hawkins Point and Cedar Point (not visible in this scene) assisted the United States Coast Guard training ship Eagle in docking at the west wall of Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Acquired from Germany after the end of WWII as the Horst Wessel (sister ship of the original Gorch Fock), the 295' U.S.C.G Eagle has served the U. S. Coast Guard as a training ship since that time.
The 100 foot, 1350 h.p. Hawkins Point is one of the older Moran tugboats serving Baltimore. Moran crew members affectionately refer to her as the “Hawk” Built in 1952 in Oyster Bay, New York, for the Lehigh Valley Railroad, she was originally named Capmore and her high pilot house tells her history as a railroad tugboat. Moran purchased her in 1964 renaming her Hawkins Point. Her classic tugboat lines make her one of the favorites of both visitors and local residents.
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