Eastwind (WAGB 279) - Naval Cruise Book

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s' - -- Kangaroosleap through Australian countryside The famous Rex Hotel at King's Cross, Sydney. Crewman enjoys strong Australian beer with date at Rex Hotel.

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w .K f- Q 1 ':,Q Operation Monsoon on April 10, 1961, midway between Africa and Australia, the Coast Guard Icebreaker Eastwind knifed northward to Ceylon, stopping every few hours to gather scientific data about the world's last ocean frontier. The first ship to take part in the Interna- tional Indian Ocean Survey,the Coast Guard Cutter Eastwind won the distinction almost by chance. In early January, Captain Naab received word that his icebreaker would return to her homeport of Boston through the Suez Canal, and thus become the first icebreaker in history ever to go around the world. Breaking out the charts of the intended route home, the Captain remembered that the Ocean survey was due to start in 1962 and continue through the end of 1964. He radioed the Hydrographic Office in Washington, and they enthusiastically accepted his offer to assist. Carefully watching depth indicator, winch operator lowers sample bottles to correct depth. Within a month, equipment was being assembled for the project, and veteran oceanographer Dr. Willis L. Tressler, of College Park, Maryland, who had been carrying on scientific work at McMurdo Sound was assigned to the ship. Oceanographic winch wire, bathyothermograph gear, steel nansen bottles, thermometers, and titration equipment were air-shipped to New Zealand, Australia, and Antarctica. Addi- tional equipment was stripped from sister icebreakers and transferred to the Eastwind at SGH.. On March 21, her Deepfreeze Operations completed, the Eastwind sailed into Sydney Harbor where she completed loading everything aboard. Three days later she was headed west toward the Indian Ocean and had a schedule of 27 ocean stations looming ahead of her. It would be almost a month before her crew would get ashore at Colombo, Ceylon, next port of call. What we were trying to do. recalls blue-eyed, white-haired Willis Tressler,r. was find out about a place that had hardly ever been explored, and, while it might not, at first glance, seem that there can be mach exploring done beneath an ocean from a surface ship, there are, nevertheless many interesting things that we can accomplish.