Oh yeah. It's a reissue of the old Revell USCGC Eagle. That kit was originally issued, if I remember correctly, in 1958. [Later edit: I'm assuming that the kit in question is the one that's currently in the Revell Germany catalog. For a while Revell Germany was selling a reboxed version of the Heller 1/150 kit, which is entirely different. See below.]
There's an interesting story behind that kit; we've discussed it several times here in the Forum. To retell the story as briefly as I can: in the 1930s the German navy built four (or was it five) sail training ships. One was named Gorch Fock; another was the Horst Wessel. All were quite similar, but they did differ a bit - some were as much as 20 feet longer than others.
At the end of World War II, the sail training ships were seized by the allies. The Gorch Fock went to the Soviet Union, and was renamed Tovaritsch. The Horst Wessel went to the U.S., and was turned over to the Coast Guard and renamed Eagle.
In the fifties, shortly before the Revell kit was originally released, the distinguished author and draftsman Harold Underhill published a book called Sail Training and Cadet Ships. In the book was a set of plans for the Gorch Fock. In the text of the book, Underhill carefully explained that some of the ships in the class were longer than others. The Horst Wessel was about 20 feet longer than the Gorch Fock.
Unfortunately the drawings got published and sold separately from the book. The dealers in the U.S. sold them as plans of the Eagle. I don't think anybody was trying to deceive anybody; there seems to have been a genuine lack of understanding of what Underhill's drawings were. (The Coast Guard certainly wasn't trying to fool anybody. I learned about this sad tale from the C.G. Historian.
At any rate, Revell decided to make an Eagle kit, and the designers based it on the Underhill plans. In other words, they made it 20 feet too short. They also gave it a bunch of modern (1958) equipment, most notably the big motor launches.
What the model builder in 1958 got, in other words, was a reasonably accurate model of the Gorch Fock/Tovaritsch, with moder U.S. Coast Guard equipment added.
Just to make matters worse, the German navy later built another sail training ship with the name Gorch Fock. That ship, sometimes called the Gorch Fock II, is similar, but far from identical, to the original (sometimes referred to as Gorch Fock I).
There will be a quiz at the end of the lecture.
Now Revell Germany is selling the same kit under the name Gorch Fock. It's actually (by 1958 standards) a good replica of the Gorch Fock I - except for the USCG additions. The detail overall is state-of-the-art for the late '50s. The deck plank edges are countersunk, for instance. Modern modelers will say the rivets on the hull are out of scale, and won't like the beautifully rendered blocks and coils of rope on various parts (including the pinrails). And those molded plastic guard rails have to go. The potential is certainly there, though, for a fine scale model - of the Gorch Fock I.
Heller used to make a very nice, larger-scale model of the Gorch Fock II. I don't know whether it's available nowadays or not, but if you're interested it's worth tracking down. [Later edit: as 1943mike pointed out in his post below, that Heller kit was, for a while, available in a Revell Germany box. Maybe that is, in fact, the kit wjbwjb29 has.]
So far as I know, the only Eagle kit (plastic or otherwise) that has the right scale proportions is a 1/150 one that the late, lamented, Japanese company Imai produced in the late '70s or early '80s. All the others seem to have been based on the Underhill drawings.
I suspect this post tells more about the subject than any rational person wants to know. But that's the story as I understand it.