U.S. Coast Guard Resumes Northern Iceberg Patrol
1946
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This segment of a United News Newsreel shows crews of cutters and seaplanes plot courses of icebergs in the Atlantic.
Transcript
Text: U.S. COAST GUARD RESUMES NORTHERN ICEBERG PATROLNarrator: The United States Coast Guard is back at the important peacetime job of hunting icebergs in northern waters. Wintry storms in the North Atlantic Ocean provide perilous adventure along the busy shipping lanes. Hunting icebergs, charting their position and course, and flashing warnings to ships at sea is everyday work for the Coast Guard. Grim memories of the liner Titanic and other vessels which have fallen victim to the treacherous icebergs are evoked by these huge pieces broken off from Greenland glaciers. Seven-eighths submerged, the great bergs endanger men and ships and must be constantly watched. The Coast Guard cutter Tampa is dwarfed by the menacing walls of ice, but much of the danger is removed when ships and planes of the Coast Guard maintain their constant vigil. Over ancient perils of the sea are spread the modern wings of the men of the Iceberg Patrol.
This primary source comes from the Records of the Office of War Information.
National Archives Identifier: 39115
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