USCGC Westwind (WAGB-281) [SEP] vessel class
USCGC Westwind (WAGB-281)
USCGC "Westwind" (WAGB-281) was a "Wind"-class icebreaker that served in the United States Coast Guard as USCGC "Westwind" (WAG-281), the Soviet Navy as the Severni Polius, and again in the U.S. Coast Guard as USCGC "Westwind" (WAGB-281).
Construction.
"Westwind" was one of the icebreakers designed by Lieutenant commander Edward Thiele and Gibbs & Cox of New York, who modeled them after plans for European icebreakers he obtained before the start of World
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