Pinetree Line Miscellaneous

USS Edisto

Displacement 3,575 t(lt) 6,500 t.(fl).;
Length 269';
Beam 63' 9";
Draft 25' 9";
Speed 16kts;
Complement, Navy 353, Coast Guard 204;
Armament one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount;
Aircraft, Coast Guard, two helicopters;
Propulsion, six 10 cylinder Fairbanks-Morris diesel engines, which furnished power to two low speed direct drive 5,000hp dc main motors.

Burton Island Class Icebreaker: Laid down at Western Pipe and Steel Co., San Pedro, CA; Launched, 29 May 1946; Commissioned as Miscellaneous Auxiliary USS Edisto (AG-89), 20 March 1947; Reclassified as an Icebreaker (AGB-2), 1 March 1949; Decommissioned, Struck from the Naval Register, Transferred to the US Coast Guard ; Commissioned USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284), 20 October 1965 at Boston, MA; Decommissioned by the Coast Guard, 15 November 1974 at USCG Yard, Baltimore, MD; Transferred to the Maritime Administraion for disposal; Final dispostion, fate unknown.