United States Revenue Cutter Service - Post-Civil War Operations

Post-Civil War Operations

During the harsh winter of 1897-1898, Lieutenant David H. Jarvis of USRC Bear led a relief party to 265 whalers whose ships had been stranded in the ice off the northern coast of Alaska.

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