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Namesake
Bear - Bears are carnivoran mammals. They are classified as doglike carnivorans. Although only eight species of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in a wide
variety of habitats throughout most of the Northern Hemisphere and partially in the Southern Hemisphere. Bears are found on the continents of North America, South America, and Eurasia (Wikipedia).
Photo - Image by Jean-noël Lafargue of a bear in the Pyrénées National Park. Licensed under Free Art License 1.3
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Ships in the harbor at Portsmouth, N.H., 1 August 1884, including those returning from the rescue of LT. A.W. Greely, U.S. Army, and other survivors, of
the Greely Relief Expedition. Left to right;
USS Tallapoosa,
USS Alliance,
USS Thetis,
USS Bear, and
USS Alert. The latter three ships participated in the expedition.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # USN 900699. |
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 USRC / USCGC Bear
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USRC Bear Illustration by William H. Thiesen.
NOAA Ocean Exploration |
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Illustration by J. M. Caiella of USRC Bear
Courtesy United States Naval Institute. |
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Oil on canvas of USRC Bear by Hunter Wood .
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USRC Bear under way, probably soon after joining the Revenue Service in 1885. |
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The colorful U.S. Revenue Service
Captain “Hell Roarin’” Mike Healy, first African-American ship captain and famed skipper of USRC Bear |
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USRC Bear crew photo including Asian enlisted men seated on bottom row, date unknown.
NOAA Ocean Explorations |
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Port side view of USRC Bear anchored at Sitka, Territory of Alaska, circa 1890s. |
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USRC Bear jammed in the ice off Point Barrow, August 1898. Photo by F.D. Fujiwara. |
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USRC Bear on Bering Sea patrol, date unknown.
Photo source - Hazy Gray & Underway. |
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USRC Bear in the ice off the northern coast of Alaska working to free herself and the trapped revenue cutter
USRC Thomas Corwin in the distance, circa 1890.
US Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo # Unknown, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USRC Bear moored at Oakland, CA., during her off-season, date unknown.
Photo source - Hazy Gray & Underway. |
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Men loading reindeer onto USRC Bear, 1 March 1896, location unknown.
Photographer unknown. Sheldon Jackson Papers, RG 239, Box 16, Folder 16, Presbyterian Historical Society |
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USRC Bear at anchor, date and location unknown.
US Coast Guard photo. |
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USRC Bear at anchor circa, late 19th century-early 20th century. The ship became famous for her long service in Alaskan
waters, where she made 34 cruises and carried out numerous other missions between 1886 and 1926.
US Navy photo from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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Native American whalers and their families rescued by USRC Bear off the Alaskan coast during a relief voyage in 1891. |
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USRC Bear at anchor while on Bering Sea Patrol off the Alaskan coast in 1908.
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U.S Coast Guard photo U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office |
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USRC Bear in the Arctic ice, circa 1910.
US Coast Guard photo by Corvino, no photo number. |
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USRC Bear in the Arctic ice, date unknown.
US Coast Guard photo, no photo number. |
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USRC Bear in port, date and location unknown.
US Coast Guard photo, no photo number. |
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USRC Bear in Arctic ice, date unknown. Note the crewmen at the end of the ships' bowsprit.
US Coast Guard photo, no photo number. |
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USRC Bear and SS Corwin in the roadstead, Nome, Alaska shortly after their arrival on
1 June 1914 Library of Congress # LC-H61-6165 |
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USRC Bear and SS Corwin, in the roadstead, Nome, Alaska shortly after their arrival, 1 June 1914. Photo by Lomex Brothers. |
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USCGC Bear in Emma Harbor, Siberia, July 1921, providing transport for C&GS officer J. T. Watkins to carry out magnetic survey work
NOAA photo from the US Coast Guard Historian's Office |
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Bear of Oakland
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Ex-USCGC Bear in service as SS Bear of Oakland sails from Boston in the snow, 12 November 1930, enroute to the Antarctic to joint the Byrd Expedition.
Acme photo. |
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City of Oakland museum ship SS Bear of Oakland playing the part of Death Larsens' sealing ship "Macedonia" for the 1930 movie
"The Sea Wolf". Filming probably took place during Bears' years as a museum ship at Oakland, CA.
Photo courtesy Haze Gray & underway. |
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SS Bear of Oakland in drydock at Newport News, October 1933. Bear of Oakland underwent emergency repairs following storm damage suffered off Diamond Shoals. At the time she was en route from Boston to New Zealand for her first Antarctic mission. Photo courtesy Haze Gray & underway. |
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SS Bear of Oakland in pack ice during her Antarctic expedition of January 1934.
Photo courtesy Haze Gray & underway. |
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SS Bear of Oakland under way around the time of her Antarctic expedition of January 1934.
Photo courtesy Haze Gray & underway. |
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SS Bear of Oakland transferring cargo at the Little America Antarctic base, January 1934.
Photo courtesy Haze Gray & underway. |
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Rear Adm. Richard Byrds' ship Bear of Oakland moored at Pier 2, Boston Navy Yard, circa 1935. On the opposite side of the pier is the floating workshop YR-15.
US Navy photo, Boston National Historical Park Collection, NPS Cat. No. BOSTS-10391 |
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The Navy provided courtesy storage for Adm. Byrd for items from his Antarctic expeditions. This view shows some of the materials stored in Building 34 of the Boston Navy Yard on 27 March 1936. Some of the material remained in storage for nearly four decades, as Navy Yard records following its 1974 closure contain letters to Byrds' heirs asking them to remove the
items.
(US Navy photo, Boston National Historical Park Collection, NPS Cat. No. BOSTS-9341 |
Stephen P. Carlson, Preservation Specialist, Boston NHP, Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, MA |
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Bear of Oakland brings RADM.Richard Byrd to the Washington Navy Yard, 13 May 1935.
Library of Congress, Photo No. LC-H2-B-7921 |
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USS Bear (AG-29)
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USS Bear at Brooklyn Navy Yard, preparing for the Greely rescue mission, April 1884.
Photo courtesy Haze Gray & underway. |
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USS Bear moored, circa 1894, location unknown. |
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USS Bear at Godhaven Harbour, Greenland, in May 1884 while serving in the Navy as part of the Greely Relief Expedition.
Bear and the former whaling ship USS Thetis rescued the seven survivors of the
Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, including Lieutenant Greely, and brought them back to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in August 1884.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 1609, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USS Bear and Lieutenant Greely. |
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USS Bear (AG-29) enters Antarctic waters in 1939, during operations with the U.S. Antarctic Service.
US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo No.1985.131.035. |
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USS Bear (AG-29) in Antarctic waters during operations with the U.S. Antarctic Service, circa 1939 and 1940. Note the aircraft on the ship.
US Navy photo courtesy the US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, photo No. 1985.131.036. |
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The barquentine USS Bear (AG-29) docked at Norfolk Navy Yard, 25 November 1939. Bear was one of two ships RADM
Richard Byrd used for his third Antarctic Expedition in 1939. Note the Beltline RR bridge with swinging center span open in the background.
US Navy photo. |
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Aboard USS Bear (AG-29) Hollis E. "Pops" Richardson, holding a couple of Husky puppies, November 1939.
Richardson served as Byrds' lead sled dog trainer/driver/musher for the expedition.
US Navy photo. |
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USS Bear (AG-29) figurehead at the bow of the ship. In the background is airship tender
USS Patoka (AV-6).
US Navy photo. |
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USS Bear (AG-29) underway during the 1939-1940 Antarctic expedition led by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. The relatively short
smokestack is evidence of the diesel propulsion that the ship received between 1935 and 1939. The extra boom aft of the mainmast was for handling a small Barkley-Grow
seaplane, for which a low stowage platform was fitted there in 1939.
US Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo No. Unknown, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USS Bear (AG-29) in the ice during the 1939-1940 Antarctic Expedition (22 November 1939-5 June 1940).
US Navy photos, courtesy of Hazegray & Underway |
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USS Bear (AG-29) nearly obscured by ice, during her final Antarctic Voyage. (10 October 1940-18 May 1941).
US Navy photo, courtesy of Hazegray & Underway |
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USS Bear (AG-29) at West Base, Antarctica, 10 January 1941. She is receiving her first mail from home in twelve months. The dog team and its driver are waiting for another load of letters. Note the full barquentine rig that she carried on this expedition, which ended in May 1941. The relatively short smokestack is evidence of the diesel propulsion that the ship received between 1935 and 1939. The ship received an aircraft platform aft of the mainmast in 1939 but the aircraft is not embarked in this view.
US Navy photo # NR&L(M) 25715 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command. |
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USS Bear (AG-29) alongside
USS Noa (DD-343) at Boston Navy Yard, 2 May 1941. From original caption, “This year the Navy is painting up, but the traditional light war-color that once
gleamed so cleanly in the sun is gone. It its place is the new almost, oxford-grey, color that so easily escapes detection in northern waters.
USS Noah (DD-343),/a> as she goes through her stages of dressing. Note, Bear before in stark contrast.
US Navy photo from the Museum of the US Navy.
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USS BEAR (AG-29) moored at Pier 3, Boston Navy Yard, in June or July 1941 following her modification for service on the Greenland patrol.
US Navy photo, Boston National Historical Park Collection, NPS Cat. No. BOSTS-10392 |
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USS Bear (AG-29) near Boston Navy Yard, 2 July 1941. Her sailing rig, topmasts and, bowsprit have been removed. Note the J2F-1 seaplane on the platform aft of the mainmast., US Navy Bureau of Ships photos now in the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command. |
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USS Bear (AG-29) entered Boston harbor, Tuesday, 14 October 1941, with the captured German ship, Busko of Norwegian registry. The sixty-ton fishing trawler was used by the Nazis to set up a secret radio station in Greenland. USS Bear captured the trawler with her crew and took the prize in tow returning to Boston. The crew was turned over to the immigration service. The Busko is shown in this Associated Press photo in the foreground while behind her is Bear with personnel of the Nazi vessel standing on deck. |
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USS Bear (AG-29) near the Boston Navy Yard, 16 February 1943. The ship was refitted in 1942 for operation by the Navy on the Northeast Greenland Patrol. Her mizzen mast and aircraft were among the items removed.
US Navy photos from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Bear (AG-29) at anchor, date and location unknown. Note the seaplane on her aft deck.
US Navy photo |
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USS Bear (AG-29) leaving Boston harbor for service with the Northeast Greenland Patrol, date unknown.
US Navy photo, courtesy of Hazegray & Underway |
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SS Arctic Bear [ex-USS Bear (AG-29)] photographed by Basil Q. Emanuel circa 1960, probably in Nova Scotia. The ship
generally resembles her 1943 appearance, but her engine and smokestack have been removed.
Photo courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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SS Arctic Bear her towline parted and foremast collapsed, begins her final journey down to the sea as the tug Irving Birch stands by helpless to save her. Bear sank at 8:15 P.M., Tuesday, 19 March 1963, 90 miles south of Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, 260 miles east of Boston.
US Coast Guard photo # 1CGD-03-19-63(03). |
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Iron bow staples on Bear in a period shipyard photograph (above) and on the wreck (below)
NOAA photo |
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Location of Bear wreck, 90 miles south of Cape Sable, Nova Scotia. |
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