| Summary: | 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 was 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). To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction/reproduction Please cite the Order Number
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