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| Career |
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| Builder: |
Western Pipe and Steel Company, San Pedro, California |
| Laid down: |
1942 |
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| Status: |
Sold for scrap |
| General Characteristics |
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| Length: |
269 ft |
| Beam: |
63.5 ft |
| Draft: |
25.7 ft |
| 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) |
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USCGC Eastwind (WAGB-279) was a United States Coast Guard Wind-class icebreaker.
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