My Ship

[macpappy]

Originally Posted by Old Sailor

I spent 28 months from 1972 - 1974 aboard a US Coast Guard Wind Class breaker homeported in Seattle. I made both a summer north trip (we went above Pt. Barrow) and then a winter north in the Bering Sea, and one south trip to McMurdo and Palmer Station, Antarctica.

The breaker I was on was commissioned the Northwind in 1939, sent to the russians during WWII and was re-claimed by the USN in the late 1950s and renamed Staten Island. It was decommissioned in 1975.