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1020 USS Townsend Harris USAT Domain of the Polar Bear certificate


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recently acquired: large size certificate of the USS Townsend Harris crossing the Arctic Circle on June 7th 1945...to enter the Northern Domain of the Polar Bear- any info on these certificates greatly appreciated. Townsend Harris was a liberty ship.

 

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Proud Blue Nose, 1991!

 

We had to run around outside in our skivvies and boon dockers, under the control of older Blue Noses. We did stuff like stick our hands in buckets of water and have to decide which was from North of the Circle or South. We ended sitting in a gun tub and being sprayed with a fire hose. Then we stood in line to get back inside the ship, we had to rattle our name off the Alfa Roster and have our noses painted blue with Prussian Bluing. We had a Battallion of Marines on board, so the whole thing took twice as long ???

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Salvage Sailor

The youngest, oldest and newest non-blue nose crewmen painting the bow royal blue

 

STANAVFORLANT - USS LUCE (DDG-38) Crossing the Arctic Circle in the North Sea, November 1979

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