1. Depart Baltimore in route Goose Bay, Labrador.
2. Outfitted Southwind with Arctic foul weather gear from air base.
3. Rendezvous with CGC Edisto at Sandre Stromford.
4. Southwind and Edisto arrived Thule to break summer ice for a channel to escort the freighter, Lt. Robert Craig North to Thule Air Force Base pier.
The two icebreakers set upon a mission to escort and assist the USS Aeolus and USS Seneca in repair of underwater communications cable.
5. Arrived Kulusuk early warning station to escort the freighter Wyandot. The Redbud came next to be platform for sending fuel oil to the site as Southwind shuttled it from the American Explorer which lay beyond the ice field due to her size.
6. A courtesy visit to the capital of Greenland yielded a wild nite with another vessel tied along side and half our crew ashore. Southwind dropped her anchor and ran a 1" braided steel towing winch cable to a ballard ashore as she sat at the end of a fiord surrounded by rock ledges. A sudden onset of high winds and rain caused the the towing winch cable to part with Southwind swinging dangerously close to the rock ledges. During the entire nite, the Captain navigated Southwind back and forth within the small turning basin as the Electrician Mates tethered themselves to the flying bridge to keep the 24" carbon arc search lights trained on the rock ledges, giving the Captain a point of reference.
Southwind was also the platform for on board Oceanographers to gather scientific data by surveying the bottom sediment at various locations in Baffin Bsy.
7. Enroute to Baltimore after 6 months of hard but rewarding work.
