Antarctica
1959
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Photo by William M. Nichols, 61st TCS Pilot |
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Antarctica.
This is the US Coast Guard ice breaker Glacier. This ship is moored approximately
where Scott's ship the Discovery was moored. The Glacier cleared a path through the Ross Sea and
McMurdo Sound for the supply ships that came to McMurdo during the short summer
season. Caption
by Bill Nichols. (Circa 1959) Editor’s
Note: This is the USCGC Eastwind
W279. “She was born on June
3, 1943, on a bright warm sunny day in San Pedro, California, in the Western
Pipe & Steel Company's Navy yard. She was the first all diesel electric
icebreaker built for Polar service, and commissioned into the Coast Guard fleet,
which operated under the auspices of the US Navy in time of war.” Warren Debrell Bonner |
