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95k | USS Glacier (AGB-4) schematic drawing. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, December 1956 |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | |
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118k | USS Glacier (AGB-4) underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, September 1955 |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | |
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114k | USS Glacier (AGB-4) underway, 8 November 1955, location unknown. US Navy photo # NH 67733, Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. |
US Naval Historical Center | |
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179k | USS Glacier (AGB-4) heavily encrusted with ice while underway in the Antarctic, date unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, December 1956 |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | |
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259k | In March of 1959, USS Glacier (AGB-4) after several days of ramming and pounding the six to fifteen foot ice-pack off Breid Bay, Antarctica, frees the Belgian Antarctic expedition ship. Polarhaf. Polarhaf had been hemmed in by the ice for over a month and a half and had drifted with the ice over 150 miles before Glacier was able to free her. US Navy photo |
Tommy Trampp | |
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50k | USS Glacier (AGB-4) underway at Boston, August 1960 | © Richard Leonhardt | |
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99k | USS Glacier (AGB-4) deep in the ice while providing support for Deep Freeze 60 (1959-60). Glacier succeeded in making the deepest penetration south in the Bellinghausen Sea ever make by a ship--71.53° south latitude and 95.44.2° west longitude--and landed a small party on Turston Peninsula. It was the first time in recorded history that man had ever set foot on this previously unknown stretch of antarctic terrain. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, April 1960. |
Stanley C. Svec | |
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106k | USS Glacier (AGB-4) leaving Norfolk, VA. for Operation "Deep Freeze", circa early-1961. US Navy photo for "All Hands" magazine, April 1961. |
Stanley C. Svec | |
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75k | USS Glacier (AGB-4) moored pierside outboard of another icebreaker at Boston, June 1961 | © Richard Leonhardt | |
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124k | USS Glacier (AGB-4) moored pierside at Boston, November 1962 | © Richard Leonhardt | |
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85k | USS Glacier (AGB-4) at Boston, September 1964 | © Richard Leonhardt | |
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31k | USS Glacier (AGB-4) underway while breaking ice, date and location unknown. | Marc Schenck | |
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98k | From left to right;
USS Burton Island (AGB-1),
USS Atka (AGB-3) and
USS Glacier (AGB-4) pushing an iceberg out of the channel near McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 29 December 1965. US Navy photo from DANFS. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | |
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55k | USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) underway, date and location unknown. | Robert Hurst | |
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36k | USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4), followed by USCGC Burton Island (WAGB-283), and USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) as they crush a path through heavily iced McMurdo Sound, in the Antarctic for cargo ships to follow to the main base at Hut Point, Ross Island, during "Operation Deep Freeze", 1969. US Coast Guard photo # GAP1-01-00-69; 1969 |
Robert Hurst | |
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65k | USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) being assisted by an unidentified tug, date and location. US Coast Guard photo. |
Robert Hurst | |
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24k | USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) underway, date and location. US Coast Guard photo. |
Robert Hurst | |
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22k | USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) at Boston, September 1964. | Ken Laesser | |
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70k | USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) underway, date and place unknown. | Randy Ward | |
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102k | USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) underway, circa 1970s, location unknown. US Coast Guard photo. |
Robert Hurst | |
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181k | USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) underway, circa 1980s off Portsmouth, England. Chris Howell owned slide. |
Chris Howell, SOUTHLAND SHIP STORES LIMITED, Port of BLUFF, NEW ZEALAND | |
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88k | USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) approaching Winter Quarters Bay harbor at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. A cargo vessel is seen in the left foreground docked at a floating ice pier. It appears that the cargo ship has just arrived at the dock. Not having tugboat assistance, a ship would typically first make a landing with its bow against the pier. The freighter then reverses its engine after securing a bow line to the dock, so as to "warp" the stern or rear of the ship against the pier. US Coast Guard photo. |
Robert Hurst | |
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34k | USS Glacier (AGB-4) "Operation Deep Freeze" Patch | Mike Smolinski | |
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23k | USS Glacier (AGB-4) "Operation Deep Freeze" Patch | Mike Smolinski | |
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