USCGC Edisto

USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284) underway
History
United States
Name	USS Edisto
Namesake	Edisto Island, South Carolina
Builder	Western Pipe & Steel (WPS), San Pedro, California, U.S.
Laid down	1946 WPS yard, San Pedro, California, U.S.
Launched	29 May 1946
Sponsored by	Mrs. George B Gelly
Commissioned	20 March 1947
Decommissioned	20 October 1965
Maiden voyage	11 April 1947
Out of service	20 October 1965
Reclassified	AGB-2 on 29 January 1949
Homeport	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Identification	AGB-2
Nickname(s)	"Ready Eddie"
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Coast Guard on 20 October 1965
United States
Name	USCGC Edisto
Namesake	Edisto Island, South Carolina
Acquired	20 October 1965
Commissioned	20 October 1965
Decommissioned	15 November 1974
Refit	1963-1964 at Boston Naval Shipyard
Homeport	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Identification	WAGB-284 Call sign: NLKY
Nickname(s)	"Lucky Eddie" "Unlucky" "Ready Eddie" "Guardian of the Redwood Coast" "Red Microphone of Death"
Fate	Transferred to US General Services Administration (GSA), sold 29 September 1977 to Boston Metals Company of Baltimore Maryland who sold her to Union Minerals Company of Carey New Jersey in 1980. Broken up at Baltimore Shipyards.
General characteristics
Class and type	Wind-class icebreaker
Tonnage	5,957 (1966)
Displacement	5,957 tons. (1966)
Length	269 ft (82.0 m)
Beam	63 ft 6 in (19.4 m)
Draft	28 ft 4 in (8.6 m) max
Installed power	Diesel-electric: 6 × Fairbanks-Morse model 8-1/8OP, 10-cylinder opposed piston engines at 2,000 shp (1,500 kW), each driving a Westinghouse DC electric generator. (1944)
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 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range	27,000 nmi (50,000 km; 31,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried	4 lifeboats, 1 LCVP, 1 Greenland Cruiser, replaced later with 1 Arctic Survey Boat (1946).
Complement	14 officers, 2 warrants officers, 189 enlisted (1966).
Crew	On polar operations, the crew includes a group of SCUBA divers, a medical officer, four pilots, twelve aviation ratings, and various scientists and observers, bringing the total force to about 225.
Sensors and processing systems	Radar: SPS-10B; SPS-6C; SPA-4; SPA-8A (1966). Other: LORAN, radioteletype (RTTY), facsimile, all-mode MF, HF, VHF, and UHF radios, radio direction finder, sonic sounding machine, handy-talkies, radio-telephone, and an amateur radio station.
Armament	1 × 5 in (130 mm)/38 caliber gun 1 × Mk 52 Mod 3 fire control radar M2 Browning machine guns M60 machine guns
Aircraft carried	2 helicopters
Aviation facilities	Helicopter flight deck with retractable hangar.
Notes	Equipped with laboratories and facilities for conducting oceanographic studies, hydrographic surveys, and high altitude meteorological observations by radiosonde.

USS Edisto (AGB-2) was a Wind-class icebreaker in the service of the United States Navy and was later transferred to the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284). She was named after Edisto Island, South Carolina. The island is named after the Native American Edisto Band who inhabited the island and the surrounding area. As of 2011 there is a namesake cutter USCGC Edisto (WPB-1313). The newer Edisto is a 110-foot Island-class patrol boat and is stationed in San Diego County, California.^[1]