Glacier (AGB 4) Class: Photographs
| These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive. |
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USS Glacier (AGB 4) In a photograph released on 26 May 1955 one day before she was commissioned. She was scheduled to face her first polar ice that winter in Operation Deep Freeze followed by participation in the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58. Photo No. USN 709474 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USS Glacier (AGB 4) Photograph by her builder, Ingalls SB, dated 5 July 1955. Note the unshielded 3"/50 twin mount forward of the bridge and the two shielded mounts outboard of the after end of the helicopter hangar. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (UA-156a) |
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USS Glacier (AGB 4) Photographed on 8 November 1955. The unshielded 3"/50 twin mount forward has been removed. Photo donated to NHHC by Donald M. McPherson. Photo No. NH 67733 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Glacier (AGB 4) Breaking ice at Little America V, probably during the annual Operation Deep Freeze, in a photo dated 15 December 1959. Photo No. USN 816361 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USS Glacier (AGB 4) Penetrating the Bellingshausen Sea in Antarctica in support of Operation Deep Freeze 1961. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (UA-164) |
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USS Glacier (AGB 4) From right to left, USS Glacier, USS Atka (AGB 3), and USS Burton Island (AGB 1) pushing together to move a huge iceberg from the channel to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on New Year's Eve (31 December) 1965 during that year's Operation Deep Freeze. Photo No. USN 827218 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (www.history.navy.mil) |
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USCGC Glacier (WAGB 4) Clearing the way through McMurdo Sound for cargo ships bound for the main U.S. Antarctic scientific base at Hut Point during Operation Deep Freeze 1967. Glacier had served in all annual Deep Freeze operations in the Antarctic from the first one in 1955-56 when the International Geophysical Year scientific programs were launched. Deep Freeze 1967 was the first one in which she was Coast Guard-manned. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USCGC Glacier (WAGB 4) In Coast Guard red, looking quite different from the Navy ship of 1955. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (UA 164) |
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