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Thurston Island News

27 Jul 1999

Crew Reunites for New Mission

The captain and officers who served on U.S. Navy Icebreaker U.S.S. Glacier, recently gathered for a reunion and to strategize for Glacier's restoration. Reunion participants included members from a crew of 300 servicemen and scientists, who, in 1961, successfully explored the most dangerous Antarctic region for a ship to enter: the Bellinghausen Sea and Thurston Island. Glacier's discoveries resutled in revisions to the world atlas. Glacier was transferred to the USCG in 1967 and operateed as USCGC Glacier until her decommissioning in 1986. USCG crewmembers are in the forefront of the restoriation of Glacier, currently moored near San Francisco. To conduct seagoing voyages for the U.S. Navy, USCG, Veterans groups and the general public.

30 Apr 2001

Society Fights to Change Fate of Former USCG Vessel

The USS/USCG Glacier made Antarctic history in February 1960 by becoming the first ship to penetrate the Bellinghausen Sea and make landfall on Thurston Island. Four decades later, the Glacier is moored in Suisun Bay, Calif. at the Maritime Administration’s Defense Reserve Fleet Facility. However, the Glacier Society, a Stratford, Conn. based group, hopes to change its fate. The society hopes to restore the Glacier to a museum and operational oceanographic ship to serve the needs of educators, historians and the oceanographic research community in port and at sea. Glacier was built in the early 1950s by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss. When commissioned in 1955, it was the world’s largest and most powerful icebreaker, capable of breaking ice up to 20 ft. thick. It is 310 ft.

18 Aug 1999

Crew Reunites for New Mission

The captain and officers who served on U.S. Navy Icebreaker U.S.S. Glacier, recently gathered for a reunion and to strategize for Glacier's restoration. Reunion participants included members from a crew of 300 servicemen and scientists, who, in 1961, successfully explored the most dangerous Antarctic region for a ship to enter: the Bellinghausen Sea and Thurston Island. Glacier's discoveries resutled in revisions to the world atlas. Glacier was transferred to the USCG in 1967 and operateed as USCGC Glacier until her decommissioning in 1986. USCG crewmembers are in the forefront of the restoriation of Glacier, currently moored near San Francisco. To conduct seagoing voyages for the U.S. Navy, USCG, Veterans groups and the general public.