Ultimate Fate
Following the expedition, O-12 was returned to the Navy Department. On 30 November 1931 she was towed three miles down the Bufjorden (a Norwegian fjord outside Bergen) and scuttled in 1,138 feet (347 m) of water. In 1981 Norwegian divers found her wreck.
In 1959, USS Skate (SSN-578) was the second submarine (after USS Nautilus (SSN-571) in 1958) to reach the North Pole. Her crew conducted a tribute to Sir George Hubert Wilkins and scattered his ashes over the North Pole.
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