The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Staten Island, an icebreaker, began its career in a most unusual place - the Soviet Navy.
Built in California, the vessel was commissioned in 1944 and transferred to the Soviet Union under the President Franklin Roosevelt's Lend Lease program for America's allies in World War Two, sailing as Severny Veter or Northwind.
The ship was returned to the U.S. Navy in 1951, re-named USS Northwind, and transferred to the Coast Guard in 1965 as the Staten Island WAGB-278.
It was decommissioned in 1974 and sold for scrap.
