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Storis (USCG) (I)

Storis (USCG) (I)
Foto: Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society (5863-1)

Historia

This icebreaker was built in 1942 by Todd Shipyard Corporation in Toledo, OH.

Notas históricas

In 1957 under her Captain H. L. Wood USCG, this vessel travelled with two other vessels as a Coast Guard Squadron, in a West to East Transit of the Northwest Passage (First US Vessels to Transit). This vessel had two AN/SPS-64 Surface Search Radars

Propietarios y capitanes

In 1942-1957 she was owned by the United States Coast Guard.

Capitanes

Captain H. L. Wood USCG (1957)

Armamento

MK-38 25mm cannon; 4 x .50 cal machine guns

Significado del nombre

Storis is an Icelandic word describing pack ice that is more than two years old and that moves along the western coast of Greenland.

Referencias

MacFarlane, J.M. (1992) Northwest Passage Challengers. In Resolution. Spring Issue. Maritime Museum of British Columbia

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