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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

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USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284)
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USS Edisto (AGB-2) (1949 - 1965)
USS Edisto (AG-89) (1947 - 1949)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Lima - Kilo - Yankee NLKY

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
National Defense Service Medal - Antarctic Service Medal (5)

Burton Island Class Icebreaker:

Laid down, date unknown,) at Western Pipe and Steel Co., San Pedro, CA.

Launched, 29 May 1946

Commissioned USS Edisto (AG-89), 20 March 1947, CDR. E. C. Folger in command

Reclassified as Icebreaker (AGB-2), 1 March 1949

Decommissioned, struck from the Naval Register, transferred to the US Coast Guard and commissioned USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284), 20 October 1965 at Boston, MA.

Decommissioned by the US Coast Guard, 15 November 1974 at USCG Yard, Baltimore, MD.

Transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposal

Final Disposition, transferred to the General Service Administration and sold, 29 September 1977, to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD., resold to Union Minerals Company , Carey, N.J. and dismantled at Baltimore, MD.

Specifications:
Displacement

As Built - 3,575 t.(lt) 6,515 t.(fl)

Coast Guard 1967 - 3,052 t.(lt) 6,481 t.(fl)
Length 269'
Beam 63' 9"
Draft 25' 9"
Speed

Max Sustained 13.4 kts, 30,929-mi radius (1967)

Economic 11.6 kts, 32,485-mi radius (1967)
Complement

Navy 353

Coast Guard 204
Armament

Navy - one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount

Coast Guard - none
Aircraft two helicopters
Propulsion 6 Fairbanks Morse 10-cylinder diesels driving 6 Westinghouse DC generators which in turn drove 2 electric motors; two propellers, 5,000 SHP each

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Edisto (AG-89)
	177k	*USS Edisto* (AG-89)** underway off Point Vincente near San Pedro, CA., 13 March 1947. Although designed to carry two 5"/38 twin mounts, she and her sister were completed after World War II with one single 5"/38 mount forward and a helicopter deck aft. US Navy photo # USN 371216 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command	Robert Hurst
USS Edisto (AGB-2)
	111k	*USS Edisto* (AG-89)** underway, 22 January 1953, location unknown. US Navy photo # USN 477319.	Robert Hurst
	53k	*USS Edisto* (AGB-2)** stationary in the ice, date and location unknown.US Navy photo	US Coast Guard Historian's Office
	45k	*USS Edisto* (AGB-2) coming alongside USS Lindenwald (LSD-6)** in the Arctic during "Operation Dewline," in 1955.	Walter Kuecks EN3 USS Edisto
	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.
	443k	*USS Edisto* (AGB-2)** underway, date and location unknown.	David Buell
	216k	*USS Edisto* (AGB-2)** keeping the sea lanes open off Greenland, circa June-July 1959.	Marc Schenck, Photo by his father LTjg. Bernard Schenck USS Glacier
	214k	*USS Edisto* (AGB-2)** keeping the sea lanes open off Greenland, circa June-July 1959.	Marc Schenck, Photo by his father LTjg. Bernard Schenck USS Glacier
	245k	*USS Edisto* (AGB-2)** keeping the sea lanes open off Greenland, circa June-July 1959.	Marc Schenck, Photo by his father LTjg. Bernard Schenck USS Glacier
	245k	*USS Edisto* (AGB-2)** underway in open waters with the Greenland coast in the background, circa June-July 1959.	Marc Schenck, Photo by his father LTjg. Bernard Schenck USS Glacier
	80k	*USS Edisto* (AG-89)** in January or February 1965 while supporting the construction of Palmer Station on Anvers Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula during Operation Deep Freeze. During the 1950s a large air search radar was mounted on the former fire control platform over the bridge and her other electronic systems redistributed. US Navy photo # KN-1872 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command	Robert Hurst
USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284)
	484k	*USCGC Edisto* (WAGB-284)** underway during Operation Deep Freeze '69/70 while .iced over in calm waters in the Ross Sea, circa December 1969 to February 1970	Gary French AT3 USCG USCGC Edisto
	1982k	*USCGC Burton Island* (WAGB-283), foreground, and USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284)** underway in the ice during Operation Deep Freeze '69/70, circa December 1969 to February 1970	Gary French AT3 USCG USCGC Edisto
	108k	*USCGC Edisto* (WAGB-284)** in the ice,.Goose Bay, Labrador Canada	Carl R Friberg
	37k	*USCGC Edisto* (WAGB-284)** moored on the Milwaukee River, WI. circa 1973-74.	Ken Laesser
	71k	*USCGC Edisto* (WAGB-284)** underway, date and location unknown.	US Coast Guard Historian's Office
	35k	*USCGC Edisto* (WAGB-284)** entering Smith Sound in 1966. US Coast Guard photo.	US Coast Guard Historian's Office
	52k	*USCGC Edisto* (WAGB-284)** underway, date and location unknown. US Coast Guard photo.	US Coast Guard Historian's Office
	90k	*USCGC Edisto* (WAGB-284)** underway, date and location unknown. US Coast Guard photo.	Robert Hurst
	57k	*USCGC Edisto* (WAGB-284)** underway, date and location unknown. US Coast Guard Photo No. 1(G1)-06-15-67 (02); 15 June 1967	US Coast Guard Historian's Office
	36k	*USCGC Edisto* (WAGB-284)** underway, date and location unknown. US Coast Guard Photo	Robert Hurst
	68k	*USCGC Edisto* (WAGB-284)** escorting a US Navy Cargo Ship in the Arctic ice, date unknown. US Coast Guard photo.	US Coast Guard Historian's Office