| Navy | The United States Coast Guard |
| Type | Icebreaker |
| Class | Wind |
| Pennant | WAGB 279 |
| Built by | Western Pipe & Steel Co. (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 23 Jun 1942 |
| Launched | 6 Feb 1943 |
| Commissioned | 3 Jun 1944 |
| End service | 13 Dec 1968 |
| History | Decommissioned on 13 December 1968 |
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Notable events involving Eastwind include:
14 Oct 1944
The USCGC Eastwind (Capt. C.W. Thomas, USCG), along with the USCGC Southwind, captured the Nazi auxiliary Externsteine off of Greenland. Eleven days earlier, U.S. Coast Guard commandos had captured about a dozen German military personnel and documents after the Eastwind's aircraft had spotted the German ship.
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