Ship's logs, weather books, medical logs, visitors registers, and other records from the U.S. Coast Guard's cutter ship Bear.
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bear patrolled the Alaska coast from 1886 to 1926 from her home port of Oakland, Calif. The patrols were five-month seasonal voyages that began in May. Decommissioned in 1926, the Bear became a maritime museum on the Oakland waterfront until 1932, when she was sold to Admiral Richard E. Byrd for his second antarctic expedition. The Bear had several more incarnations before sinking in a storm off the Massachusetts coast in 1963.
(OHC COLL 2020-6)
19 boxes (8.67 linear feet)
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Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.
