USCGC Burton Island

USCGC Burton Island (WAGB-283)
History
United States
Name	USS Burton Island (AG-88)
Namesake	An island off the coast of Delaware
Builder	Western Pipe and Steel Company (WPS), San Pedro, California
Cost	US$9.880,037.00
Laid down	15 March 1946
Launched	30 April 1946
Christened	1946
Completed	1946
Commissioned	28 December 1946
Decommissioned	15 December 1966
Maiden voyage	17 January 1947
In service	8 December 1946
Out of service	15 December 1966
Stricken	1966
Identification	AG-88 (1946) AGB-1 (1949) Call sign: NRFC
Nickname(s)	B.I.
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Coast Guard
United States
Name	USCGC Burton Island (WAGB-283)
Recommissioned	15 December 1966
Decommissioned	9 May 1978
Homeport	Long Beach, California (1966) Government Island, Alameda, California (1977)
Identification	Call sign: NEVK
Nickname(s)	Hurtin' Burton B.I. White Antarctic Garbage Barge
Fate	Sold for scrap, 17 August 1980
General characteristics
Class and type	Wind-class icebreaker
Displacement	6,515 tons (1945)
Length	269 ft (82 m)
Beam	63 ft 6 in (19.35 m)
Draft	25 ft 9 in (7.85 m)
Installed power	6 × Fairbanks-Morse 8-1/8OP 10-cylinder opposed-piston engines (6 × 2,000 hp)
Propulsion	Diesel-electric 2 × Westinghouse Electric DC electric motors driving 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; 15.4 mph)
Range	32,485 mi (52,280 km)
Endurance	13.4 knots (24.8 km/h; 15.4 mph) (maximum) 11.6 knots (21.5 km/h; 13.3 mph) (economic)
Boats & landing craft carried	4 lifeboats. 1 LCVP. 1 Greenland Cruiser, later Arctic Survey Boat (ASB)
Complement	219 officers and men
Sensors and processing systems	Electronics: Radar SPS-10B; SPS-53A; SPS-6C (1967)< Sonar
Armament	1 twin mount Mk 12 5"/38 caliber gun, forward main deck. 1 twin mount 40mm/60, forward O-2 deck. M2 Browning machine guns and small arms. (1946) M2 Browning machine guns, M60 machine guns, and small arms (1966)
Aircraft carried	2 single rotor helicopters and air detachment personnel
Aviation facilities	Flight deck and retractable hangar with aircraft service capabilities

USS Burton Island (AG-88) was a United States Navy Wind-class icebreaker that was later recommissioned in the United States Coast Guard as the USCGC Burton Island (WAGB-283). She was named after an island near the coast of Delaware.