Well, out comes my copy of Dr. Thomas Graham's Remembering Revell Model Kits again.
According to the appendix of the book, the Revell kit originally appeared under the name Eastwind in 1958. It was molded in three colors: white, brown, and "mustard"; the scale is listed as 1/285. It was reissued once (in 1968) under its original name, and at least three times as the U.S.S. Burton Island.
As built, and originally commissioned under Coast Guard colors, the-Wind class ships were equipped with propellers mounted on their bows to shove hunks of ice out of the way. That idea didn't work out well, and the bow propellers were removed. My (admittedly hazy) recollection is that the original Revell issue had the bow propeller, but that it was left out of the various reissues.
The original design included two twin 5" gunhouses (fore and aft) and handling gear for a Grumman Duck aircraft. The Revell kit depicts the ships in their 1950s configuration, with the after 5" mount replaced by a helicopter deck. (The little Sikorsky helicopter was a prime feature of the kit.)
To my knowledge that's the only American icebreaker ever turned into a mainstream plastic kit.
Youth, talent, hard work, and enthusiasm are no match for old age and treachery.