Wind-Class Icebreaker ART

[John 3rd]

Does anyone have art to go with the Wind-Class Icebreakers?

I need Admiral Dadman to Post his picture here so we can get the work taken care of. Plan to add them to all our Mods.

Thanks!

[John 3rd]

Here are the stats:

How about 7 Wind class ice breakers for ASW work in 1944?

USS/USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278) 26 February 1944
USS/USCGC Eastwind (WAGB-279) 3 June 1944
USS/USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) 15 July 1944
USS/USCGC Westwind (WAGB-281) 18 September 1944
USS/USCGC Northwind (WAGB-282) 28 July 1945
USS/USCGC Burton Island (WAGB-283)30 April 1946
USS/USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284) 29 March 1946

USS Eastwind WAG-279
4×2 5in(130 mm)/38cal twin deck guns
12×4 40mm/60cal anti-aircraft guns
6×1 20mm/80cal anti-aircraft guns
6 x K-gun depth charge throwers
2 × Y-gun depth charge racks
1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
Radar: SA (Air Search); SL (Surface Search)

Displacement: 6,500 tons
Speed: 17 knots
Range: 32,485 mi at 11.6 knots on 2,800 tons of fuel (estimated)
Aircraft: 1 J2F Duck (or SOC)

[Admiral DadMan]

The closest I can get is with in-game bitmap art either 133 or 301

[InfiniteMonkey]

Every time I see this thread, my mind reads it as "Ice class Breaker of Wind". Too much of the 12 year old still in me...

[spence]

Its not art but all of the icebreakers histories are available at the uscg historian's website (as are the ship's histories of all cg cutters).

https://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/cutterlist.asp


I haven't checked for each ship but I think most or all of these ships operated in the Atlantic (near Greenland). Of note is that the first two commissioned captured a German weather station and a supporting German naval auxiliary on their maiden cruise.

(From USCG historians website)

Eastwind, 1944



WAG- / WAGB-279
Call Sign: NRFB

Builder: Western Pipe & Steel Co., San Pedro, CA

Builder's Number: CG-97

Cost: $9,880,037

Length: 269' oa

Beam: 63' 6" mb

Draft: 25' 9" max

Displacement: 6,515 tons (1945)

Keel Laid: 23 June 1942

Launched: 6 February 1943

Commissioned: 3 June 1944

Decommissioned: 13 December 1968

Status: Sold

Propulsion: 6 Fairbanks Morse 10-cylinder diesels driving 6 Westinghouse DC generators which in turn drove 3 electric motors; 12,000 SHP; two propellers aft; one propeller forward.

Top speed: 13.4 knots (1967)

Economic speed: 11.6 knots; 32,485 mile range.

Complement: 12 officers, 2 warrants, 205 men (1967)

Electronics:
Radar: SPS-10B; SPS-53A; SPS-6C (1967)
Sonar: QCJ-8 (1945)

Armament: 4 x 5"/38s (in two twin mount gun turrets); 12 x 40mm/60 (in three quad mounts); 6 x 20mm/80 (single mounts); 2 x depth charge racks; 6 x "K" guns; 1 x Hedgehog (1945); none (1967)

Class History:

The "Wind" Class final design--modeled after the Swedish icebreaker Ymer--was prepared by Gibbs & Cox of New York after initial design work by LCDR Edward Thiele, USCG (later the Coast Guard's Engineer-in-Chief) who had obtained details of foreign icebreakers while vacationing in Europe before the war. The Wind- class of icebreakers measured 269 feet in length, 63’6” in beam and displaced 6,500 tons. The Coast Guard contracted for five vessels of the class in November 1941 to fulfill the need to access military bases in Greenland that would be inaccessible during most of the year without the use of heavy icebreakers. Eventually, the Coast Guard operated seven Wind- class icebreakers.

The design of the vessels included a bow propeller used to clear the hull from ice and dredge broken ice forward. The bow propeller was not typically used as a means for propulsion unless the vessel needed to back out of surrounding ice. The vessels also had a diesel electric power-plant, the most compact, economical, and powerful propulsion system available at the time. Additionally, while the diesels provide the power supply, there was a division between these diesels and the motors, which supplied power to the shafts. The rotating electric motors could handle the shocks and extreme power- to- speed ratios necessary for ice operations.

The close spaced frames and careful design of the trusses and planting, along with the thick, welded hull plating made the hulls of the Wind- class unprecedented in strength and structural integrity. The hull also had compressed cork insulation, strengthened steering apparatus, and a padded notch at the stern to nestle the bow of any vessel being towed through ice. Also the design included fore, aft, and side heeling tanks with pumps to aid in water movement within the vessel to rock the ship free from ice build up. The specifications for construction were so extensive that the Western Pipe and Steel Company of Los Angeles was the only builder to submit a bid. They were originally designed to be equipped with a fixed wing amphibious aircraft.

Cutter History:

World War II

USS Eastwind, CG was launched on 6 February 1943 from the Western Pipe & Steel Company's shipbuilding yard in San Pedro, California. She was commissioned on 3 June 1944 under the command of Captain C. W. Thomas, USCG. She was assigned to CINCLANT and was stationed at Boston, MA and operated in Greenland waters. Along with her sister-ship Southwind, she operated against teams of German scientists and military personnel who attempted to establish weather stations in remote areas of Greenland. On 4 October 1944 Eastwind captured a German weather station on Little Koldewey Island and 12 German personnel. On 15 October 1944 Eastwind captured the German trawler Externsteine and took 17 prisoners. The trawler was renamed East Breeze and a prize crew sailed her to Boston.

[spence]

Ooops...3 of the Wind Class actually were transferred to the USSR under lend lease (it would seem that all were those initially earmarked for the Pacific Theater.

[Admiral DadMan]

ORIGINAL: spence

Ooops...3 of the Wind Class actually were transferred to the USSR under lend lease (it would seem that all were those initially earmarked for the Pacific Theater.

Yes. Russians don't need no stinkin' ice breakers.