USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278)

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.
Soviet Union
Name:	Severny Veter
Operator:	Soviet Navy.
Acquired:	February 1944 under Lend-Lease.
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.
Struck:	1 March 1966.
Motto:	If It Can Be Done We Can Do It
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 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 US Coast Guard as USCGC Staten Island in February 1965, and served until November 1974, before being scrapped.

Staten Island 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 War II. She was the first of seven completed ships of the Wind-class of icebreakers operated by the United States Coast Guard. She was laid down on 9 June 1942 at Western Pipe and Steel Company shipyards in San Pedro, California, launched on 28 December 1942 and commissioned on 26 February 1944. Once commissioned, she was almost immediately transferred to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease program.1944.

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