USCGC Northwind (WAGB-282)
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USCGC Northwind (WAG/WAGB-282) was a Wind-class icebreaker, the second United States Coast Guard Cutter of her class to bear the name. She was built to replace USCGC Staten Island which was in Soviet lend-lease service.
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USCGC Northwind in Baffin Bay on 10 July 1986. | |
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Name | Northwind |
Builder | Western Pipe and Steel Company |
Yard number | CG-184 |
Laid down | 10 July 1944 |
Launched | 25 February 1945 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Mabelle C Dempwolf |
Commissioned | 28 July 1945 |
Decommissioned | 20 January 1989 |
Nickname(s) | "The Grand Old Lady of the North" |
Fate | Scrapped in 1999 |
Notes | Callsign: NRFJ |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wind-class icebreaker |
Displacement | 6,515 short tons (5,910 metric tons) |
Length | 269 ft (82 m) |
Beam | 63 ft 10 in (19.46 m) |
Draft | 29 ft 1 in (8.86 m) |
Ice class | Heavy (up to 13 ft (4.0 m) ice) |
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Propulsion | 2 × Westinghouse Electric DC electric motors driving the 2 aft propellers, 1 × 3,000 shp (2,200 kW) Westinghouse DC electric motor driving the detachable and seldom used bow propeller. |
Speed | 13.4 knots (24.8 km/h) top speed |
Range | 32,485 mi (52,280 km) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 4 lifeboats, 1 LCVP, 1 Arctic Survey Boat |
Complement | 219 officers and men |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | One fixed wing amphibious aircraft or two helicopters. |
Aviation facilities | Flight deck with retractable hangar. Two booms for lifting aircraft. |
Notes | Northwind sometimes carried one M29C Weasel. |
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During her career, Northwind conducted extensive oceanography, hydrography and cartography studies, as well as icebreaking, during Operation Nanook and Operation Highjump. Northwind was the last Wind-class icebreaker when she was decommissioned in Wilmington, North Carolina on 20 January 1989 after 44 years of service.