Decommissioning
Northwind was decommissioned in Wilmington, North Carolina on 20 January 1989. She was the last remaining of the original seven U.S. built Wind-class icebreakers. An effort to preserve Northwind in her homeport alongside the USS North Carolina failed, and the ship was scrapped at International Shipbreakers, Port of Brownsville, Texas. The scrapping operation took nearly 6 months to complete.
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