Ship Details

Storis (U.S.C.G.C.)

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Photo Credit: Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society (5863-1)

 
 
Registry #1 WMEC.38 (USCG) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1942 Storis (U.S.C.G.C..) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1942 Place Toledo Area OH Country USA
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 230' x 43' x 15'
Builder Todd Shipyard Corporation Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement 1925
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Icebreaker
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 3 GM ElectroMotive 645E6 diesel electric engines Engine Manufacture General Motors Corporation, Detroit MI USA
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # WMEC.38 Masters Captain H. L. Wood USCG (1957)
 
Owner(s)
In 1942-1957 she was owned by the United States Coast Guard.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name Storis is an Icelandic word describing pack ice that is more than two years old and that moves along the western coast of Greenland.
 
Anecdotes
In 1957 under her Captain H. L. Wood USCG, this vesseltravelled 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
 
References
MacFarlane, J.M. (1992) Northwest Passage Challengers. In Resolution. Spring Issue. Maritime Museum of British Columbia
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