USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83)
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USCGC Mackinaw is a decommissioned United States Coast Guard icebreaker which operated on the Great Lakes for 62 years. A state-of-the-art icebreaker when she was launched in 1944, Mackinaw was built
USCGC Mackinaw
The USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83) as seen from her permanent berth at the SS Chief Wawatam dock at Mackinaw City, Michigan, 2019
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Krassin (1916 icebreaker)
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The first icebreaker Krassin, or Krasin, was built for the Imperial Russian Navy as Svyatogor. She had a long, distinguished career in rescue operations, as well as a pathfinder and explorer of the No
USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83)
…Mackinaw (USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30)) and also homeported in Cheboygan. In the fall of 1941, the United States briefly borrowed the Soviet icebreaker Krassin. Although attempts to lease the icebreaker from the USSR for a year fell through, she was studied by the Coast Guard and her design influenced that of…
Icebreaker Svyatogor (renamed Krassin) as completed in 1917
The first ice floe of the Kara Sea aboard the first trip on the first vessel to transit the region
Fragment of the painting Launch of the icebreaker Svyatogor for sea trials. 1916 Vladimir Kosov 60x100 oil on canvas. 2016
Reconstruction of the Krassin in East Germany, 1959.