USCGC Eastwind (WAGB-279) [SEP] vessel class
USCGC Eastwind (WAGB-279)
USCGC "Eastwind" (WAGB-279) was a "Wind"-class icebreaker that was built for the United States Coast Guard. Completed in time to see action in World War II, she continued in USCG service under the same name until decommissioned in 1968.
Construction.
"Eastwind" was the second of five Wind-class of icebreakers built for the United States Coast Guard. Her keel was laid down on 23 June 1942 at Western Pipe and Steel Company shipyards in San Pedro. She was
- USCGC "Mackinaw" (WAGB-83) (1944–2006; museum ship)
- Wind class
- USCGC "Staten Island" (WAGB-278) (1944–1974; broken up)
- USCGC "Eastwind" (WAGB-279) (1944–1968; broken up in 1976–1977)
- USCGC "Southwind" (WAGB-280) (1944–1974; broken up in 1976)
- USCGC "Westwind" (WAGB-281) (1944–1988; likely broken up)
- USCGC "Northwind" (WAGB-282) (1945–1989; broken up in