USCGC Eagle (WIX 327) conducts a four-month summer training deployment, sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, to provide practical seamanship skills to the future leaders of the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's commissioned officer corps, foreign military partner members and personnel employed by Tall Ships America. Eagle also facilitated diplomatic engagements while abroad to strengthen relationships with U.S. allies in Northern Europe, the Portuguese archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, as well as Bermuda.