Historia
This barkentine (3-masted) was built in 1874 by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd. in Dundee, Scotland.
Notas históricas
In 1896 this vessel was on Bering Sea Patrol and in service on the North Pacific.
In 1898 whaling companies appealed for assistance in freeing eight whaling vessels trapped in the ice off Point Barrow Alaska. A land relief expedition was beached from the US Government ship Bear at Cape Vancouver under Captain Tuttle. The ship continued to battle the ice and finally arrived at Point Barrow in 1899. This vessel served on the coast for many years and carried out important missions under another Master, Captain Cochran. On 25/10/1914 this vessel delivered the survivors of the Canadian Arctic Expedition from Wrangell Island Russia to Victoria BC Canada. During the Second World War this vessel participated in the capture of the German vessel Baskor.
In 1963 this vessel foundered at Halifax, NS Canada.
Propietarios y capitanes
In 1874 she was a Newfoundland sealer owned by Walter Grieve & Co., St. John's Newfoundland.
In 1884 she was owned by the United States Government to participate in the search for the lost Greely Arctic expedition.
She served as a US Revenue Cutter from 1885-1915 sailing on annual Alaskan patrols.
In 1915 she was absorbed into the US Coast Guard.
In 1926 she was laid up.
She became a floating museum at Oakland CA USA.
In 1932 she was used in Admiral Byrd's 2nd Antarctic Expedition spending two summers on the Ross Sea.
In 1935 she was laid up in the USA and re-commissioned in 1939 for an Antarctic Expedition. During the Second World War she was re-commissioned into the US Coast Guard. After the Second World War she was laid up at Halifax NS until 1963 when she was being towed to be converted to a floating restaurant and sank while under tow.
Capitanes
Captain Tuttle (1887-98); Captain Cochran
Reconstrucciones
In 1939 she was re-masted, re-rigged and re-engined with diesels.
Remotorización
Repowered in 1939 with diesel engines by Cooper-Bessemer
Referencias
- McKinlay, William Laird (1976)
- Brock, P.W. & Basil Greenhill (1973)
- Newell, G. (1966)
- Paine, Lincoln P. (1997)
