dr_julius ha scritto:
La storia può incuriosire, ma l'ultima foto dubito che sia relativa al ritrovamento, essendoci scritto sulla nave "Coast Guard" in lingua inglese.

On 31 October 1966 she was transferred the United States Coast Guard and christened again as USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280), changed homeport to Curtis Bay, Baltimore, Maryland]].

After a shakedown cruise to Bermuda she proceeded on its first operational cruise north to Thule, Greenland.

She deployed to the Arctic in 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973, as well as to the Antarctic in December 1967, December 1968 and January 1972.

In 1971, Southwind visited the port of Murmansk, being the first US naval vessel to visit a Soviet port since the start of the cold war. During that visit, she took aboard a boilerplate (BP-1227) from the Apollo Program. The boilerplate has been lost in the North Sea in early 1970, recovered by a Hungarian vessel, transferred to the Soviet Union, and passed to Southwind in September 1970.[1][2]

Southwind was decommissioned on 31 May 1974, and sold for scrap on 17 March 1976 for $231,079.00 to Union Mineral & Alloy Corporation of New York.

Welcome to the home page for the Coast Guard Cutter SOUTHWIND WAGB 280. This web
site is dedicated to all the members of the Coast Guard that served aboard this mighty
ship. The SOUTHWIND was originally commissioned on July 19, 1944, in San Pedro,
California as the ultimate in modern icebreaker design. She was a wind class breaker and
joined her sister ships in the Coast Guard's war-time fleet and was assigned duties in the
waters of the Arctic escorting ships to our northern outposts.

qua altre foto della soutwind
http://kolamap.ru/arh/nasa.html

In March, 1945, Southwind was sent to Russia under the lend lease program, was returned
to the United States Navy in Yokosuka, Japan in 1950 and was named USS ATKA. After
emergency repairs, the Navy sailed the ship to Boston which was her home port for the
next 16 years.

In late 1966, the ship was transferred to the Coast Guard and became the USCGC ATKA.
The new crew sailed the ship from Boston to her new home port of Baltimore. In 1967, and
at the crew's request, the ship was given her original name: USCGC SOUTHWIND
completing a remarkable historical cycle.

Arctic - 7 July 1969 to 29 August 1969:

* Completed an Arctic deployment to Greenland, served as an escort for vessels

requiring transit through ice fields, and conducted oceanographic research
along the west coast of Greenland

* On 15 August ran aground 130 miles ESE of Thule, Greenland; sustained

minor damage


Arctic - 3 June 1970 to 20 November 1970:

* Completed an Arctic deployment to Greenland, served as an escort for vessels

requiring transit through ice fields, and resupplied military bases in Greenland

* On 15 August reached 83 degrees 01 minutes North, the northernmost

penetration into the Arctic Basin by a U.S. icebreaker up to that date


Arctic - 10 July 1971 to 29 July 1971:

* Completed an Arctic deployment to Greenland, served as an escort for vessels

requiring transit through ice fields, and resupplied military bases in Greenland
Conducted a glacier survey along the west coast of Greenland