Friday, October 23, 2020

"U.S.R.C. 'Bear' in Alaskan Waters" art


"U.S.R.C. Bear in Alaskan Waters" by Paul McGehee. The most famous ship in U.S. Coast Guard history, the Bear was built in 1874. Built with 6" wooden planking she was the finest ship of her era for cutting through ice. She spent a decade working as a seal ship out of Newfoundland. In 1884 she was purchased by the U.S. government to become part of the United States Revenue Cutter Service, which later became the U.S. Coast Guard. The Bear first entered the pages of history in 1884 as the ship that got through the ice to save the few remaining survivors of the Greely Expedition party which had been trapped in the Arctic cold while charting the coast of Greenland.

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