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U.S.S. BURTON ISLAND
(AGB-1)Click to view crew list
USS BURTON ISLAND (AGB-1) - a Wind-class icebreaker
In Commission 1946 to 1966AGB-1 Deployments - Major Events
Add a AGB-1 Shellback Initiation | Add a AGB-1 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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JAN | 1946 | - | JAN | 1950 | Alaska |
MAR | 1946 | - | Keel Date: 15 MAR 1946 at Western Pipe and Steel Company Los Angeles CA | ||
APR | 1946 | - | Launch Date: 30 APR 1946 | ||
DEC | 1946 | - | Commissioned: 28 DEC 1946 | ||
JUN | 1950 | - | SEP | 1950 | Alaska |
OCT | 1952 | - | JAN | 1953 | Antarctic Circle |
JUN | 1953 | - | AUG | 1953 | Agb 1 arctic |
JUL | 1956 | - | SEP | 1956 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
JUL | 1957 | - | SEP | 1957 | Project 572 West |
NOV | 1957 | - | APR | 1958 | Operation Deep Freeze III Task Force 43 |
DEC | 1957 | - | DEC | 1957 | Port Lyttleton, New Zealand |
DEC | 1957 | - | Shellback Initiation - 2 DEC 1957 - Pacific Ocean | ||
DEC | 1957 | - | DEC | 1957 | Crossed International Date Line |
DEC | 1957 | - | DEC | 1957 | Crossed International Date Line |
DEC | 1957 | - | JAN | 1958 | McMurdo Sound, Antarctica |
DEC | 1957 | - | DEC | 1957 | Crossed Equator on way to Operation Deepfreeze III, Shellback |
JAN | 1958 | - | JAN | 1958 | Visit Mirny, Russian station |
FEB | 1958 | - | FEB | 1958 | Showa, Japan station |
MAR | 1958 | - | MAR | 1958 | Valparaiso, Chile |
MAY | 1959 | - | MAY | 1959 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
APR | 1960 | - | SEP | 1960 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
OCT | 1963 | - | Shellback Initiation - 15 OCT 1963 - Pacific Ocean | ||
OCT | 1963 | - | MAR | 1964 | Antarctic Circle |
MAY | 1978 | - | Decommissioned: 9 MAY 1978 |
AGB-1 General Specifications
Class: Wind-class icebreaker
Displacement: 6515 tons
Length: 269 feet
Beam: 63 feet 6 inches
Draft: 25 feet 9 in
Flank Speed: 13 Knots
Final Disposition: Sold for scrap 17 August 1980
USS BURTON ISLAND (AGB-1)
Burton Island (AG-88) was launched 30 April 1946 by Western Pipe and Steel Co., San Pedro, Calif., and commissioned 28 December 1946, Commander G. Ketchum in command.
After receiving supplies Burton Island departed San Diego 17 January 1947 and steamed
to the Ross Sea, Antarctica, where she arrived 8 February for rendezvous with units of
TF 68 on the First (1947) Antarctic Development Project. She made her way through the
ice packs to the Bay of Whales and unloaded supplies and received passengers for the
return voyage. She arrived at San Pedro 31 March 1947 after steaming via Port Chalmers
and Wellington, New Zealand; and Pago Pago, Somoa.
After undergoing a yard overhaul she picked up supplies at San Francisco and Seattle and
departed 25 July for the 1947 Point Barrow Expedition. At Point Barrow, Alaska, Burton
Island's helicopters participated in ice reconnaissance and surveys. She returned to San Diego 24 August.
Burton Island underwent overhaul and repairs at San Pedro and then joined the Second (1947)
Antarctic Development Project. She arrived 1 January 1948 at Shackleton Ice Shelf and conducted
hydrographic and geological surveys, ice reconnaissance, and demolition experiments in the area.
She returned to San Pedro 31 March and underwent ice damage repairs at Long Beach.
Between April 1948 and December 1956 Burton Island participated in 19 different type cruises
in Arctic and Alaskan waters. Each time she returned to the west coast she received overhaul
or repairs at either Long Beach, Mare Island, or Bremerton Naval Shipyards, then resumed her
duties on the expeditions. Duties performed included: supply activities; helicopter
reconnaissance of ice flows and packs; ice surveys and photographs; oceanographic, hydrographic,
geological, coast and geodetic, and hydrophone surveys; electronic interference surveys; underwater
demolition team explosions in ice packs; and Arctic convoy exercises. Expeditions in which Burton Island took part were Point Barrow Resupply Expeditions (1948-51), MICOWEX-50 A; Beaufort Sea Oceanographic Expeditions; Bering Sea Explorations; MSTS Project 572; and several expeditions into the Bering and Beaufort Seas as far north as the Arctic Circle and the Canadian Northwest Territories near the Mackenzie river.
During March 1949 while undergoing repairs at Lon Beach, Burton Island was designated AGB-1.
On 15 December 1966 Burton Island was decommissioned and transferred to the U. S. Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard operated the ship until 1978 when she was decomissioned and disposed of as
excess property.
[Note: The above USS BURTON ISLAND (AGB-1) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS BURTON ISLAND (AGB-1), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]