USCGC Northland (WPG-49)
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USCGC Northland was a United States Coast Guard cruising class of gunboat especially designed for Arctic operations in commission from 1927 to 1938 and from 1939 to 1946. She served during World War I
USCGC Northland (WPG-49) circa 1929
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Northland in Greenland circa 1944
Captured German weather personnel on Northland
USS Bear
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USS Bear was a dual steam-powered and sailing ship built with six-inch -thick sides which had a long life in various cold-water and ice-filled environments. She was a forerunner of modern icebreakers
USCGC Northland (WPG-49)
…as a state, she served as the flagship of the Israeli Navy with the name INS Eilat. Northland was designed to be a replacement for the Arctic cutter Bear and was built at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation, Newport News, Virginia, launched on 5 February 1927 and commissioned on 7 May 1927…
USS Bear (AG-29) in Antarctica, 1939
Men loading reindeer onto USRC Bear
USS Bear circa 1944