USS Edisto (AG-89)
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USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284)
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| Name: | USS Edisto (AGB-89). |
| Namesake: | Edisto Island, South Carolina |
| Owner: | U.S. Navy. |
| Operator: | U.S. Navy. |
| Builder: | Western Pipe & Steel (WPS), San Pedro, California. |
| Laid down: | 1946. WPS yard, San Pedro California. |
| Launched: | 29 May 1946. |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs George B Gelly. |
| Commissioned: | 20 March 1947. |
| Decommissioned: | 20 October 1965. |
| Maiden voyage: | 11 April 1947. |
| Out of service: | 20 October 1965. |
| Reclassified: | AGB-2 on 29 January 1949. |
| Homeport: | Boston, Massachusetts. |
| Identification: | AGB-2. |
| Nickname(s): | Ready Eddie. |
| Fate: | Transferred to U.S. Coast Guard on 20 October 1965. |
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| Name: | USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284). |
| Namesake: | Edisto Island, South Carolina |
| Owner: | U.S. Coast Guard. |
| Operator: | U.S. Coast Guard. |
| Ordered: | 17 December 1943. |
| Acquired: | 20 October 1965. |
| Commissioned: | 20 October 1965. |
| Decommissioned: | 15 November 1974. |
| Refit: | 1963-1964 at Boston Naval Shipyard. |
| Homeport: | Boston, Massachusetts and Baltimore, Maryland. |
| Identification: | WAGB-284. |
| Nickname(s): | Lucky Eddie. Unlucky. Ready Eddie. Guardian of the Redwood Coast. Red Microphone of Death. |
| Fate: | Transferred to US General Services Administration (GSA), sold 29 September 1977 to Boston Metals Company of Baltimore Maryland who sold her to Union Minerals Company of Carey New Jersey in 1980. Broken up at Baltimore Shipyards. |
| Status: | 19th Fleet. |
| Notes: | Ships callsign: NLKY. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Wind-class icebreaker. |
| Type: | Auxiliary, General (Ice) Breaker (AGB). Coast Guard, Auxiliary, General, (Ice) Breaker (WAGB). |
| Tonnage: | 5,957 (1966). |
| Displacement: | 5,957 tons. (1966). |
| Length: | 269 feet. |
| Beam: | 63 feet, 6 inches. |
| Draft: | 28 feet, 4 inches (aft-maximum). |
| Ice class: | Wind class, heavy icebreaker. |
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| 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: | 13 knots. |
| Endurance: | 13.0 knots maximum sustained speed; 22,951 mile range. Economic cruising speed: 10.0 knots, 27,000 mile range (1966). |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
4 lifeboats, 1 LCVP, 1 Greenland Crusier, replaced later with 1 Arctic Survey Boat (1946). |
| Complement: | 14 officers, 2 warrants officers, 189 enlisted (1966). |
| Crew: | On polar operations, the crew includes a group of SCUBA divers, a medical officer, four pilots, twelve aviation ratings, and various scientists and observers, bringing the total force to about 225. |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Radar: SPS-10B; SPS-6C; SPA-4; SPA-8A (1966). Other: LORAN, radioteletype (RTTY), facsimile, all-mode MF, HF, VHF, and UHF radios, radio direction finder, sonic sounding machine, handy-talkies, radio-telephone, and an amateur radio station. |
| Armament: | 1 x 5"/38. 1 x Mk 52 Mod 3 fire control radar. M2 Browning machine guns, M60 Machine guns, and small arms. |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 rotary winged aircraft. |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter flight deck with retractable hangar. Capable of supporting two helicopters. |
| Notes: | Equipped with laboratories and facilities for conducting oceanographic studies, hydrographic surveys, and high altitude meteorological observations by radiosonde. |
Radar: SPS-10B; SPS-6C; SPA-4; SPA-8A (1966).
The USS Edisto (AGB-2) was a Wind-class icebreaker in the service of the United States Navy and was later transferred to the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284). She was named after Edisto Island, South Carolina. The island is named after the Native American Edisto Band who inhabited the island and the surrounding area. Currently (2011) there is a namesake cutter USCGC Edisto (WPB-1313). The newer Edisto is a 110-foot Island-class patrol boat and is stationed at San Diego, California.
Edisto 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 last of seven completed ships of the Wind-class of icebreakers operated by the United States Coast Guard. Her keel was laid on May 15, 1945 at Western Pipe and Steel Company shipyards in San Pedro, California, she was launched on December 28, 1946, and commissioned on March 20, 1947.
Her outer hull plating was constructed with 1-5/8 inch thick high tensile steel. Edisto had a double bottom above the waterline with the two "skins" being approximately 15 inches apart, insulated with cork. Framing was closely spaced and the entire hull girder was designed for great strength. Edisto's bow had the characteristic sloping forefoot that enabled her to ride up on heavy ice and break it with the weight of the vessel. Edisto's stern was similarly shaped to facilitate breaking ice while backing down. The sides of the icebreaker were rounded, with marked tumble home, that enabled the ship to break free from ice by heeling from side to side. Such heeling was accomplished by shifting water rapidly from wing tanks on one side of the ship to the other. A total of 220 tons of water could be shifted from one side to the other in as little as 90 seconds, which induced a list of 10 degrees. Ballast could also be shifted rapidly between fore and aft tanks to change the trim of the ship. Diesel electric machinery was chosen for its controlability and resistance to damage.
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