United States Revenue Cutter BEAR in the ice, n.d.

• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1896
• Subjects: Bear (Ship); United States. Revenue-Cutter Service; Bering Sea; Ice > Alaska; Sleds > Alaska; Sled dogs > Alaska; Antarctic; Byrd; Newell; Pacific; Antarc*; Sea ice; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/transportation/id/357

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...