-- Icebreakers

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230' Storis

Auxiliary Icebreaker (1942-1945)
Auxiliary Icebreaker, Light (1945-1972)
Medium Endurance Cutter (>1972)

Designation Name Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC Storis WAG/WAGB/WAGL/WMEC 38 1942 - 2007 Built as a supply cutter for the Greenland patrol
Basically a stretched 180' buoy tender with an Duck on the fantail
Stationed in Boston after the war
1 July 1957 Set out with CGCs Spar and Bramble to find
a deep water channel through the Arctic Ocean
This transit ended the 450 year search for the Northwest Passage
Returned to Greenland via the passage and then transited to Alaska
via the Panama Canal becoming the first cutter to
circumnavigate the North American Continent
Performed ice breaking duty until 1972
Converted to Medium Endurance Cutter
Decommissioned in 2007
Known as the Galloping Coast of the Alaskan Coast
Queen of the Fleet 1991 to 2007
CGH

290' Mackinaw Class

Icebreaker

Designation Name Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC Mackinaw WAGB 83 1944 - 2006 Designed specifically to operate in the Great Lakes
Basically a Wind Class breaker lengthened, widened and deepend
CGH

269' Wind Class

Icebreaker

Designation Name Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC Eastwind WAG/WAGB 279 1944 - 1968 Captured German trawler Externstein in 1944
Only German surface ship captured in WWII
First of the Winds to be decommissioned
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USCGC Southwind (ex USS Atka) AGB/WAGB 3/280 1944 - 1945
1966 - 1974
Commissioned as USCGC Southwind
Assisted in capture of Externstein
To Russia 1945 - 1949
Tranferred from Russia to the Navy in 1949
Renamed USS Atka
Returned to the Coast Guard in 1966
Renamed USCGC Southwind
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USCGC Westwind WAG/WAGB 281 1944 - 1945
1951 - 1988
To Russia 1945 - 1951 CGH
USCGC Northwind WAG/WAGB 282 1945 - 1989 The orignal Northwind (WAGB 278) was transferred to Russia prior to completion
Another Wind Class breaker was ordered and named Northwind
She was the last of the Winds to be decommissioned
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USCGC Edisto (ex USS Edisto) AG/AGB/WAGB 89/2/284 1965 - 1974 Acquired from the Navy CGH
USCGC Staten Island (ex USS Northwind) WAG/WAGB 278 1965 - 1974 The first Wind Class breaker to be laid down
To be built as USCGC Northwind (WAGB 278)
Transferred to Russia prior to commissioning
Transferred from Russia to the Navy in 1951
Renamed USS Northwind
Returned to the Coast Guard in 1965
Renamed USCGC Staten Island
NS
USCGC Burton Island (ex USS Burton Island) AG/AGB/WAGB 88/1/283 1966 - 1978 Acquired from the Navy CGH

309' Glacier Class

Icebreaker

Designation Name Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC Glacier AGB/WAGB 4 1966 - 1987 Acquired from the Navy
Transferred to Glacier Society for preservation
Possible use as hospital ship
NS

399' Polar Class

Icebreaker

Designation Name Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC Polar Star WAGB 10 1976 - Active   CGH
USCGC Polas Sea WAGB 11 1976 - Active   CGH

420' Healy

Icebreaker

Designation Name Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC Healy WAGB 20 2000 - Active Named for Mike "Hell Roarin" Healy
Famous longtime skipper of the famous Bear
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240' Mackinaw Class

Icebeaking Buoy Tender

Designation Name Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC Mackinaw WLBB 30 2005 - Active Replacement for the original Mac on the Lakes
Combines the ATON design of a buoy tender
with the hull of a heavy icebreaker
Powered by 2 azipods and sporting 2 bow thrusters
Extremely maneuverable design
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