page_title: Wind-class icebreaker
section_title: USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278)
hierarchical_section_title: Wind-class icebreaker / Ships in class / USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278)
caption_attribution_description: The U.S. Navy icebreaker USS Staten Island (AGB-5) with an HUL-1 helicopter on board approaches the Palmer Peninsula during Antarctic operations in April 1963.
context_page_description: The Wind-class icebreakers were a line of diesel electric-powered icebreakers in service with the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Coast Guard and Soviet Navy from 1944 through the late 1970s. They were very effective ships: all except Eastwind served at least thirty years, and Northwind served in the USCG continuously for forty-four years. Considered the most technologically advanced icebreakers in the world when first built, the Wind-class icebreakers were also heavily armed; the first operator of the class was the United States Coast Guard, which used the vessels for much-needed coastal patrol off Greenland during World War II. Three of the vessels of the class, Westwind, Southwind, and the first Northwind all went on to serve temporarily for the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease program, while two others were built for the United States Navy and another was built for the Royal Canadian Navy; all eight vessels were eventually transferred to the United States Coast Guard and the Canadian Coast Guard.
  The Wind-class ships were the first class of true icebreakers built by the United States.
context_section_description: Builders:  United States (Western Pipe and Steel Company (WPS) in San Pedro, California).
  Laid down: 9 June 1942.
  Launched: 28 December 1942 (List).
  Operators:  Soviet Navy,  United States Navy,  United States Coast Guard.
  Commissioned: 26 February 1944 (List).
  Status: Decommissioned 15 November 1974 and scrapped.
  Modifications:
  Operations:
  Went to  Soviet Navy in 1944 where she was known as Severni Veter (North wind) and since 1946 as Kapitan Belusov as part of the Lend-Lease program; returned to  United States Navy in 1951 as Northwind, renamed Staten Island in 1952, then transferred to  United States Coast Guard in 1966.
caption: USCGC Staten Island
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