Template:Ship box USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280)
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[edit] USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280)
- Builders:
United States (Western Pipe and Steel Company in San Pedro, California)
- Laid down: 1942
- Launched: March 8, 1943 ([List of ship launches in 19xx|List])
- Operator:
United States Navy,
United States Coast Guard,
Soviet Navy
- Commissioned: July 15, 1944 ([List of ship commissionings in 19xx|List])
- Status: Decommissioned and scrapped
- Modifications:
- Operations:
Sent to USSR where it was known as the Kapitan Belusov in 1945 as part of the Lend-Lease program. Returned to United States Navy in 1950 as the Atka, then transferred in 1966 to
United States Coast Guard where she was known as the Southwind.