USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83)
 USCGC Mackinaw.
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| Name: | USCGC Mackinaw |
| Namesake: | Mackinaw City, Michigan |
| Builder: | Toledo Shipbuilding Company |
| Laid down: | 20 March 1943 |
| Launched: | 4 March 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 20 December 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 June 2006 |
| Fate: | Museum ship |
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| Displacement: | 5,252 long tons (5,336 t) |
| Length: | 290 ft (88 m) |
| Beam: | 74.3 ft (22.6 m) |
| Draft: | 19.5 ft (5.9 m) |
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| Speed: | 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
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| Complement: | 8 Officers, 67 Enlisted |
| Notes: | Two 6,000 lb (2,700 kg) Bower Stockless anchors with 2-inch-diameter (51 mm) links. |
USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83) is a 290-foot (88 m) vessel specifically designed for ice breaking duties on the Great Lakes. LR number: 6119534
Mackinaw was homeported in Cheboygan, Michigan during active service. Due to Mackinaw's age and expensive upkeep, the cutter was decommissioned and replaced with a smaller multipurpose cutter USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30), which was commissioned in Cheboygan the same day.
In 2002 the crew of this cutter painted and refurbished the Fourteen Foot Shoal Light.
The old Mackinaw moved under its own power on 21 June 2006 from the port of its decommissioning to a permanent berth at the SS Chief Wawatam dock at the ship's namesake port, Mackinaw City, Michigan where she now serves as a museum ship known as Icebreaker Mackinaw Maritime Museum.
Mackinaw’s design was based on the Wind class of Coast Guard icebreakers, but the cutter was built wider and longer than the other Wind-class vessels so that her draft would be shallower. Because she was built specially for the Great Lakes — she was too wide to fit through the pre-1959 Saint Lawrence Seaway — her hull was built lighter than the Wind-class vessels, but shared many characteristics, such as a relatively short length in proportion to the great power developed, a cut-away forefoot, rounded bottom, and fore, aft and side heeling tanks. Diesel electric machinery was chosen for its controllability and resistance to damage, and she also had a bow propeller. She was laid down on 20 March 1943 at Toledo Shipbuilding Company in Toledo, Ohio, launched (sideways) on 4 March 1944, and commissioned on 20 December 1944. The original blueprints of the Mackinaw called for 300 ft in length. She was built with a length of 290 ft.
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