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USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) |
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1625k | Shipyard workers laying down the keel for Hull # CR 98 (later USCGC Southwind) at Western Pipe & Steel Co. Shipyard, San Pedro, CA., 20 July 1942. US Coast Guard Historian's Office by "Dick Whittington" Photo # 12. |
Robert Hurst | ||
50k | USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) moored pierside, during her commissioning ceremony, 15 July 1944, at Western Pipe & Steel Co., San Pedro, CA. USCG Photo. |
Robert Hurst | ||
169k | USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) possibly the ship's commissioning ceremony, 15 July 1944, at Western Pipe & Steel Co., San Pedro, CA. | Paul Rebold | ||
165k | USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) at anchor probably in the vicinity of San Pedro, CA., in July 1944 sometime before or after her commissioning on 15 July 1944. | Paul Rebold | ||
69k | USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) under way, date and location unknown. | Robert Hurst | ||
USS Atka (AGB-3) |
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09080355 | 65k | Photo - City of Adak - Alaska Public Media Map - Showing US Naval Air Facility and the Naval Security Group Action area, courtesy US Navy |
Tommy Trampp | |
92k | USS Atka (AGB-3) under way in Arctic pack ice with USS
Wyandot (AKA-92), date unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, April 1952. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | ||
94k | USS Atka (AGB-3) moored pierside at Boston Naval Shipyard , 12 February 1954, while preparing for a deployment to the Antarctic. | Ron Reeves | ||
40k | USS Atka (AGB-3) arriving at Boston Naval Shipyard, 13 April 1955, after a four month deployment to the Antarctic. AP Wirephoto |
Tommy Trampp | ||
70k | USS Atka (AGB-3) hove to in Arctic ice. Notice the crew members on the ice, date unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, December 1956. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | ||
70k | USS Edisto (AGB-2) and USS Atka (AGB-3) moored together at Goose Bay, Labrador,
18 June 1960. Photo by PH1 Class Scott US Navy photo # USN 1051798. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | ||
09080368 |
38k | A U.S. Navy Sikorsky HUS-1 Seahorse (BuNo 144661) from Air Development Squadron VX-6 (The Puckered
Penguins) hovers near USS Atka (AGB-3) in McMurdo Sound, in 1960.
Photo from www.picryl.com by U.S. National Archives |
John Spivey | |
117k | USS Atka (AGB-3) leaving Thule Air Base, the US Armed Forces' northernmost installation, located 750
miles north of the Arctic Circle.
Life Magazine Archives. |
Mike Green | ||
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09080356 |
268k | USS Atka (AGB-3) pushing the one and half million ton iceberg, nicknamed “Moby Dick” out of McMurdo Sound's man-made shipping channel,
20 February 1964.
U.S. Navy photo # 330-PSA-44-64-1 by PH2 P.A. Kopp, USN. |
Robert Hurst | |
09080357 |
189k | USS Atka (AGB-3), one of the last ships to leave, is shown in this dramatic twilight silhouette just prior to departing the Ross Sea area,
on 12 March 1964.
U.S. Navy photo # 330-PSA-44-64-1 |
Robert Hurst | |
379k | USS Atka (AGB-3) underway, date and location unknown. | David Buell | ||
222k | USS Atka (AGB-3) underway, date and location unknown. | David Buell | ||
101k | USS Atka (AGB-3) underway in Boston Harbor in March 1965 following the addition of a helicopter hanger at her stern. Boston Naval Shipyard photo ASF #1533, Boston National Historical Park Collection, NPS Cat. No. BOSTS-10307. |
Stephen P. Carlson, Preservation Specialist, Boston NHP, Charlestown Navy Yard. Boston, MA. | ||
98k | From left to right, USS Burton Island (AGB-1), USS Atka (AGB-3) and USS Glacier (AGB-4) pushing an iceberg out of the channel near McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 29 December 1965. US Navy photo from DANFS. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | ||
246k | USS Atka (AGB-3) in the ice at Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze 1966. | David Buell | ||
26k | USS Atka (AGB-3) in the ice at Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze 1966. | Jim Noble | ||
15k | USS Atka (AGB-3) in the ice at Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze 1966. | Photo by Jim Noble | ||
96k | USS Atka (AGB-3) transfer Ceremony program front page | Jim Noble | ||
USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) |
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49k | USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) underway in the ice, circa 1966-74. | Ken Laesser | ||
1625k | USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) transits the Panama Canal , 28 November 1967. US Coast Guard Historian's Office photo, copy sheet # 112867-13-16 |
Robert Hurst | ||
762k | USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) probably at the entrance to Arthur Harbor, Antarctica, 24 December 1967. US Coast Guard Historian's Office photo, copy sheet # 122474-13-16 |
Robert Hurst | ||
436k | USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) underway in Arthur Harbor, Antarctica, 24 December 1967. US Coast Guard photo sheet # 122467-(05-8) |
Robert Hurst | ||
261k | USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) at anchor, date and location unknown. US Coast Guard photo. |
Robert Hurst | ||
176k | USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) underway, date and location unknown. US Coast Guard photo. |
Robert Hurst | ||
933k | USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) underway in the Port of Wellington, New Zealand, 13 November 1968. | Photo from the Chris Howell collection with copyright | ||
501k | USCGC Burton Island (WABG-283) meets up in McMurdo Sound, Antarctic, during "Operation Deep Freeze", 1969 with two sister Coast Guard icebreakers.
USCG Glacier (WAGB-4) is close aboard to starboard and USCG Southwind (WAGB-280) is directly astern. US Coast Guard photo from the collections of the US Coast Guard Historian's Office. |
Robert Hurst | ||
36k | USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4), followed by USCGC Burton Island (WAGB-283), and USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) as they crush a path through heavily iced McMurdo Sound, in the Antarctic for cargo ships to follow to the main base at Hut Point, Ross Island, during "Operation Deep Freeze", 1969. US Coast Guard photo # GAP1-01-00-69; 1969 |
Robert Hurst | ||
09080343 |
66k | Apollo BP-1227 capsule being returned by the Soviet Union to USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) at Murmansk, 8 September 1970. Photo sources: (09080343) Hungarian press photo, courtesy Nandor Schuminszky; (09080344) USCGC photo from the Southwinds 1970 cruise book, courtesy Mike Malone; (09080345) Hungarian space history book, courtesy Tamas Feher. |
Robert Hurst | |
09080344 |
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09080345 |
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292k | USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) crewmen chip away at ice while in Baffin Bay, November 1970. Note the Apollo BP-1227 training capsule, lost at sea, found by a Russian trawler, and picked up by Southwind at Murmansk on the deck. Photo scanned from Southwind's Arctic East 70 scrapbook. | Robert Hurst | ||
412k | USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) crewmen in dress blues pose in front of the Apollo training capsule. Photo scanned from Southwind's Arctic East 70 scrapbook. | Robert Hurst | ||
47k | USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) heads "Home For Christmas", December 1970, after visiting the North Pole. Note the Apollo capsule on her main deck forward. USCG photo. |
Robert Hurst | ||
26k | USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280), date and location unknown. | Tommy Trampp |
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Commanding Officers | ||||
01 | CDR. Hoyle, Richard M., USCG | 15 July 1944 - 25 March 1945 | USCGC Southwind WAGB-280) | |
Decommissioned | 25 March 1945 - 10 January 1950 | To Soviet Union | ||
02 | CDR. Kelly, Robert Bolling USN, (USNA 1935) | 10 January 1950 - 12 December 1951 | USS Atka (AGB-3) | |
03 | CDR. Flynn, Leonard John USN, (USNA 1934) | 12 December 1951 - 6 February 1953 | USS Atka (AGB-3) | |
04 | CDR. Mansfield, Jack Emerson USN, (USNA 1938) | 6 February 1953 - 28 June 1954 | USS Atka (AGB-3) | |
05 | CDR. Jacobsen, Glen USN | 28 June 1954 - 7 August 1956 | USS Atka (AGB-3) | |
06 | CDR. Bulfinch, Charles USN | 7 August 1956 - 5 April 1958 | USS Atka (AGB-3) | |
07 | CDR. Reinhardt, William Henry USN, (USNA 1941) | 5 April 1958 - 1 September 1959 | USS Atka (AGB-3) | |
08 | CDR. Toon, Buster Eugene USN | 1 September 1959 - 17 October 1961 | USS Atka (AGB-3) | |
09 | CDR. Draper, Murray Edmond USN | 17 October 1961 - 28 February 1963 | USS Atka (AGB-3) | |
10 | CDR. Judith, Joseph Henry USN | 28 February 1963 - 5 June 1964 | USS Atka (AGB-3) | |
11 | CDR. Martin, William "J" USNR | 5 June 1964 - 19 July 1965 | USS Atka (AGB-3) | |
12 | CDR. Blake, John Sanborn, USN, (USNA 1946) | 19 July 1965 - 31 October 1966 | USS Atka (AGB-3) | |
12 | Decommissioned | 31 October 1966 | USS Atka (AGB-3) | |
13 | CAPT. Dolber, Sumner R. USCG | 31 October 1966 - 6 June 1969 | USCGC Southwind WAGB-280) | |
14 | CAPT. Cassidy, Edward D. USCG | 6 June 1969 - December 1970 | USCGC Southwind WAGB-280) | |
15 | CAPT. Schwob, William S. USCG :RADM | December 1970 - July 1972 | USCGC Southwind WAGB-280) | |
16 | CAPT. Knapp, Richard J. USCG :RADM | July 1972 - December 1972 | USCGC Southwind WAGB-280) | |
17 | CAPT. Lonsdale, Adrian Lorence USCG | December 1972 - 31 May 1974 | USCGC Southwind WAGB-280) |
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