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| Career |
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| Builder: |
Western Pipe and Steel Company, San Pedro, California |
| Laid down: |
1942 |
| Fate: |
Sold for scrap |
| General characteristics |
| Length: |
269 ft (82 m) |
| Beam: |
63.5 ft (19.4 m) |
| Draft: |
25.7 ft (7.8 m) |
| Propulsion: |
six Fairbanks Morse diesel engines at 2000 Bhp each (12,000 Bhp total), driving 6 Westinghouse DC generators which in turn drove 3 electric propulsion motors; two propellers aft and one propeller forward (the front propeller was detachable and seldom used) |
USCGC Eastwind (WAGB-279) was a United States Coast Guard Wind-class icebreaker.
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- 1952 - During the Arctic Cruise that year, for the first time were launched stratospheric balloons from the deck of the ship. The balloon carried scientific instruments to perform cosmic ray studies and rockets to be fired once in the stratosphere (Rockoons)
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