-- Icebreakers

Red Hulls

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	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

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	Wiki

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	CGH CGH CGH