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United States Revenue Cutter BEAR and the S.S. CORWIN in background, caught in the ice, near Nome, n.d.
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| Title | United States Revenue Cutter BEAR and the S.S. CORWIN in background, caught in the ice, near Nome, n.d. |
| Photographer | Lomen Bros. |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | Caption on image: Caught in the Ice. Copyright by Lomen Bros., Nome
Filed in Alaska--Ships |
| Contextual Notes | The BEAR patrolled the North Pacific and the Bering Sea in 1896 with the other revenue cutters, after which she was assigned to patrol Puget Sound (p. 10). She sailed from November 1897 to September 1898 assisting whaling vessels trapped or disabled in ice flows (p 43). She worked on the Bering Sea patrol almost constantly from 1899 until 1926, when she became a maritime shrine (p. 376). "On January 28, 1915, the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service and the Lifesaving Service were merged under the designation of United States Coast Guard" (p. 255). Control of the Coast Guard and the BEAR was transferred to the Navy department after the declaration of World War I (p. 293). The BEAR ended her government service in 1925 when she was given to Oakland, California, as a maritime shrine (p. 372). Admiral Byrd puchased the BEAR in 1931, renamed her BEAR OF OAKLAND, and she served as the flagship of his second Antarctic expedition (p. 412). The BEAR sank in 1963 being abandoned on a beach by a bankrupt Nova Scotia sealer. She was purchased by Alfred M. Johnston of Villanova, Pennsylvania, who towed her to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and converted her to a museum and a restaurant (p. 679). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966). |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Government vessels--Alaska; Ships--Alaska; Ice--Alaska |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Revenue cutters--Alaska; Bear (Ship); Corwin (Ship) |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC1438
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Postcard Collection |
| Object Type | Postcard |
| Physical Description | 3.5 x 5.5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from an original photographic postcard using a Microtek ArtixScan 1800f at 110 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2005. |
| Restrictions | For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Reproduction & Use page
http://content.lib.washington.edu/sc-use.html |
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