USCGC Staten Island

USCGC Staten Island
History
United States
Name	USCGC Staten Island WAG/WAGB-278.
Operator	United States Coast Guard.
Builder	Western Pipe and Steel Company.
Laid down	9 June 1942.
Launched	28 December 1942.
Commissioned	26 February 1944.
Fate	Loaned to the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
Name	Severny Veter
Operator	Soviet Navy.
Acquired	February 1944 under Lend-Lease.
Fate	Returned to the United States
United States
Name	USS Northwind AGB-5.
Operator	United States Navy.
Acquired	19 December 1951.
Commissioned	26–31 January 1952.
Decommissioned	1 February 1966.
Renamed	USS Staten Island AGB-5, on 15 April 1952.
Stricken	1 March 1966.
Motto	If It Can Be Done We Can Do It
Fate	Transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard
United States
Name	USCGC Staten Island WAGB-278.
Acquired	1965.
Commissioned	1 February 1965.
Decommissioned	15 November 1974.
Nickname(s)	White Arctic Garbage Barge.
Fate	Scrapped
Notes	Ships callsign NSXN
General characteristics
Class and type	Wind-class icebreaker
Displacement	6,515 long tons (6,620 t) full load
Length	269 ft (82 m)
Beam	63 ft 6 in (19.35 m)
Draft	25 ft 8 in (7.82 m)
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	16.8 knots (31.1 km/h; 19.3 mph)
Range	32,485 nmi (60,162 km)
Complement	21 officers, 295 enlisted (1942) 12 officers, 2 warrants, 205 men (1967)
Armament	As built for USSR service: 4 × 1 3 in (76 mm)/50 8 × 1 40 mm/60 6 × 1 20 mm/80 2 depth charge tracks.
Aircraft carried	1 × Grumman J2F Duck seaplane

USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278) was a United States Coast Guard Wind-class icebreaker. Laid down on 9 June 1942 and launched on 28 December 1942, the ship was commissioned on 26 February 1944, and almost immediately afterward transferred to the Soviet Union, under the Lend Lease program, under the name Severny Veter, which loosely translates as Northwind, until 19 December 1951. When returned to the United States Navy, she was designated USS Northwind until 15 April 1952, when she was renamed USS Staten Island to distinguish her from her successor USCGC Northwind (WAGB-282) which had been laid down shortly after she was lent to the Soviet Union. The ship was transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard as USCGC Staten Island in February 1965, and served until November 1974, before being scrapped.