Fletcher's Ice Island
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Fletcher's Ice Island or T-3 was an iceberg discovered by U.S. Air Force Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher. Between 1952 and 1978 it was used as a staffed scientific drift station that included huts, a power
Wrecked USAF C-47 aircraft on Fletcher's Ice Island (photo taken in June 1972)
USS Skate (SSN-578)
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USS Skate was the third submarine of the United States Navy named for the skate, a type of ray, was the lead ship of the Skate class of nuclear submarines. She was the third nuclear submarine commissi
Fletcher's Ice Island
…cracks were observed around ALPHA, and the station was forced to relocate 2 km away from its original location. In August 1958, after the US Submarine USS Skate (SSN-578) made a visit to the station ALPHA, the surrounding ice ground began cracking and ridging again, so the station was finally abandoned in November 1958…
Skate with an ice pack behind her
USS Skate in August 1958, possibly at Drifting Ice Station Alfa
USS Skate in the Dutch port of Rotterdam, March 1958
USS Skate surfaced in Arctic – 1959