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USS Glacier (AGB-4) schematic drawing.
US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, December 1956 |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. |
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Launching of Glacier (AGB-4) at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Corp., Pascagoula, MS., 27 August 1954.
US National Archives, US Navy photo from pixeyl.com |
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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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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. |
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USS Glacier (AGB-4) departs Boston, 25 October 1955, on her maiden voyage to the Antarctic to participate in operation
"Deepfreeze." Two wives, one with an infant in arms, wave Bon Voyage to the departing ship on which their husbands are crew members.
UPI Telephoto BHP102501-10/25/55. |
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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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USS Glacier (AGB-4) off the ice edge at McMurdo, Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze 1955. Due to contrary offshore winds,
she had to shuttle cargo from two AKAs and a Victory ship 20 miles into McMurdo. |
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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 |
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USS Glacier (AGB-4) breaks out RV Polarhaf after being icebound for five weeks at Breid Bay, Antarctica,
in 1959. RV Polarhaf was taking a Belgian expedition to its base.
U.S. Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine December 1959, p.5. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Glacier (AGB-4) underway near Antarctica, circa 1956-57. |
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In February 1960, USS Glacier (AGB-4) came to the assistance of the Danish cargo ship MV Kiska Dan freeing that ship from entrapment by Antarctic ice.
Photos courtesy Destroyer Escort Historical Museum. |
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USS Glacier (AGB-4) moored to ice in Kainan Bay in 1956.
Report of Operation Deepfreeze I 1955-56, U.S. Navy Task Force 43, Washington D.C., 843 pp. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Glacier (AGB-4) seen from the flight deck of USS Burton Island after
reaching the Bellingshausen Sea on 9 August 1960.
National Museum of the U.S. Navy. Photo ID. 330-PSA-152-60 (USN 817415) (21287040542). |
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USS Glacier (AGB-4) underway at Boston, August 1960 |
© Richard Leonhardt |
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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 Bellingshausen 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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USS Glacier (AGB-4) leaving Norfolk, VA. for Operation "Deep Freeze", circa early-1961.
US Navy photo for "All Hands" magazine, April 1961. |
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USS Glacier (AGB-4) moored pierside outboard of another icebreaker at Boston, June 1961 |
© Richard Leonhardt |
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USS Glacier (AGB-4) moored pierside at Boston, November 1962 |
© Richard Leonhardt |
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USS Glacier (AGB-4) at Boston, September 1964 |
© Richard Leonhardt |
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USS Glacier (AGB-4) underway while breaking ice, date and location unknown. |
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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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A Sikorsky HRS-3 helicopter about to land on USS Glacier (AGB-4), date and location unknown. Also visible in the picture is a Bell HUL-1 general purpose helicopter.
USN photo. |
Robert Hurst |
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USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) underway, date and location unknown. |
Robert Hurst |
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USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) being assisted by an unidentified tug, date and location.
US Coast Guard photo. |
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USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) underway, date and location.
US Coast Guard photo. |
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USCGC Burton Island (WABG-283) meets up in McMurdo Sound, Antarctic, during "Operation Deep Freeze", 1969 with two sister Coast Guard icebreakers.
USCG Glacier (WAGB-4) is close aboard to starboard and USCG Southwind (WAGB-280) is directly astern.
US Coast Guard photo from the collections of the US Coast Guard Historian's Office. |
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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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USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) underway in ice, date and location.
US Coast Guard photo. |
Nicholas Tiberio |
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USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) underway, circa 1969, location.
US Coast Guard photo. |
Robert Hurst |
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USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) at Boston, September 1964. |
Ken Laesser |
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USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) underway, date and place unknown. |
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USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) moored pierside in an Alaskan port, 9 December 1973. |
Photo by Chris Howell, Southland Ship Stores Limited, Port of Bluff, N.Z. |
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USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) underway, circa 1970s, location unknown.
US Coast Guard photo. |
Robert Hurst |
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USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) underway at Wellington, N.Z., in 1975. |
Photos by Chris Howell, from the Chris Howell Photo Collection |
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USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) moored pierside at Pearl Harbor, November 1981. |
Photos by Chris Howell, Southland Ship Stores Limited, Port of Bluff, N.Z. |
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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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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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USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) underway in ice, date and location.
US Coast Guard photo. |
Nicholas Tiberio |
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USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) and Arctic Survey Boat, in Antarctic waters, date unknown.
US Coast Guard photo. |
Robert Hurst |
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Ex-USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA., 1 October 2011. |
Ron Reeves |
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Ex-USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) moored to a buoy at Bremerton, WA., June 1989. |
Ron Reeves |
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Ex-USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) under tow, date and location unknown.
US Coast Guard photo. |
Ron Reeves |
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Ex-USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4), ex-USS Oklahoma
City (CLG-5) and ex-USS Oriskany (CVA-34) moored at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard,
circa 1990.
090804165 photo by Douglas Gillmer, and
090804166 DN-SC-90-03979 by LT. Fallon, Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files |
Bob Canchola |
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Ex-USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) drydocked at Mare Island in Dry Dock #2 for hull cleaning prior to being towed to Brownsville, TX. for dismantling, 22 April 2012 |
Photos by Darryl Baker |
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Ex-USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) drydocked at Mare Island in Dry Dock #2 for hull cleaning prior to being towed to Brownsville, TX. for dismantling, 23 April 2012 |
Photos by Chris Rasmussen |
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