1947 - 2000: Special Mission Cutters

The Polar Fleet

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	CGH
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	NS
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	CGH
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

Training Cutters

Designation	Name	Class	Classification	Hull Num	Service	Comments	Pictures

USCGC	Cuyahoga	125 Buck-and-a-Quarters	WPC/WMEC	157	1927 - 1978	Typical operations until 1957 1957 to 1959 - Training cutter in New London 1959 - Transferred to Yorktown as OCS training cutter 20 October 1978: Lost in a collision with Santa Cruz II	CGH
USCGC	Curlew	Schooner 65	CG	65016	1940 - 1960	Donated to the Coast Guard on 31 Jan 1940 Used as an Academy training ship 1951: transferred to TRACEN Cape May Used in boot camp training	Link
USCGC	Eagle (ex SNS Horst Wessel)	295 Barque	WIX	327	1946 - Active	Built in 1936 and named Horst Wessel a stormtrooper who wrote the Nazi party anthem and died fighting German Communists in 1930 Traing ship in the German Navy Siezed as a war prize in 1946 Commissioned into the Coast Guard as the Academy training cutter Only sailing vessel in commissioned US service America's Tall Ship	CGH
USCGC	Lamar	184 USS PCE	WTR	899	1964 - 1969	Commissioned in the Navy as 1945 Training ship from 1950 to 1964 Turned over to the Coast Guard in 1964 Used for Reserve training in Monterey
USCGC	Tanager (ex USS Tanager)	221 Auk Class Minesweeper	AM/MSF/WTR	385/385/885	1964 - 1972	Commissioned into the Navy in 1945 Performed mine sweeping operations until 1963 Transferred to the Coast Guard in 1963 Used for Reserve training at Yorktown	CGH

Misc Special Mission Cutters

Type C1-M-AV1 Cargo Ship

Designation	Name	Classification	Hul Num	Service	Comments	Pictures

USCGC	Unalga (ex USS Tipton)	MC/AKA/WAK	2169/215/185	1945 - 1950	Used for LORAN construction
USCGC	Kukui (ex USS Colquit)	AK/WAK	174/186	1946 - 1972	Used for LORAN support - To the Philippines	CGH CGP

USCGC Yamacraw Cable Layer

Designation	Name	Classification	Hul Num	Service	Comments	Pictures

USCGC	Yamacraw (ex General Arthur Murray) (ex USS Trapper)	ACM/WARC	9/333	1946 - 1959	Acquired from the Army as a cable layer	NS

US Army Freighter Small (FS)

Designation	Name	Classification	Hul Num	Service	Comments	Pictures

USCGC	Trillium (ex FS-397)	WAK	170	1946 - 1950	Used for LORAN construction
USCGC	Spruce (ex FS-422)	WAK	246	1946 - 1950	Used for LORAN construction
USCGC	Nettle (ex FS-396)	WAK	169	1947 - 1968	Used for LORAN construction	CGP

Governors Island Ferries

Designation	Name	Classification	Hul Num	Service	Comments	Pictures

USCGC	Lieutenant Samuel S. Coursen			1966 - 1997
USCGC	Major General			1966 - 1970
USCGC	Pvt. Nicholas Minue			1966 - 1997
USCGC	The Tides			1966 - 1997
USCGC	Governor			1982 - 1997

USCGC Neverbuilt Oceanographic Research Ship

Designation	Name	Classification	Hul Num	Service	Comments	Pictures

USCGC	Joseph Henry (aka CGC Neverbuilt)	WHEO	701		Proposed in 1971 Never funded - victim of NOAA	CGH