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Coast Guard: Wreck found in Atlantic is storied cutter Bear

The Greeley rescue.

Bear and Rescue of the Greely Expedition Survivors - NOAA Ocean Exploration

In 1881, Lt. Adolphus Greely, a member of the U.S. Army’s Signal Corps, led an expedition to Ellesmere Island, northwest of Greenland, to study its weather and winter conditions. Attempts to relieve Greely’s expedition in 1882 and 1883 proved unsuccessful and members of the expedition began to...

oceanexplorer.noaa.gov

Adolphus W Greeley

https://www.armyheritage.org/soldier-stories/fire-ice-adolphus-w-greely/

 

[Moxie 15]

A floating restaurant? I think the gods could not stand to see such a ship reduced to such a task and sank her out of love and pity.

 

[Semper Paratus]

Concur.