Arneb (AKA 56) - Naval Cruise Book

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LUMBERING ALONG. . . Housin9 maternal transported to bose Slie ADARE VILLAGE International effort' - A . .. .- Q'-. nf-. 'Y W ' .ef - - - ' '-r'-TOT' 1-if ' 4' ' mAP2ln5JiE?fi'o,665 o f t f found on the site selected for the base. Twenty men removed 9,000 in Operation Penguin-Lift. Then SeaBees of Mobile Construc- tion Battalion One went to work 'D ttt i f ALL RIGHT WHO DID IT? Local gentry pondering recent move IGY constructing the ll-building base. A supply dump was graded and per sonnelworked lntwo 12 hour shifts under the continuous daylnght ofthe Antarctic summer ln eight days the station began to take shape as the detachment of SeaBees erectedthe red steel sided huts on the ground where the pen gums once nested GRADING TERRAIN , , . Ancient volcanic ash gives Way under D-4 POWGI' TURN TO - SEABEE STYLE fl. C!! i T.

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ADMIRAL DUFEK lRight of Captain Johnsonl LUNCHE5 ABQARD ARNEB GLACIER PROV DES KNOX COAST, ANTARCTICA- . . . January' 31, 1957 . . .. lts crew instilled with renewed enthusiasm from the first mail since early De- cember, the Arneb today arrivedat Clark Island, one of the Windmill group, in Vincennes Bay. Reaching the 90-mile wide ice pack on Jan. 25, hundreds of ice- bergsandthick bay ice blocked the path-to the base site but eventually the Glacier found the route. Although damaged once again by thick bay ice, the Arneb crew and SeaBees began work on Wilkes Sta- tion, the last of the IGY bases to be started. Time was essential for the Antarctic summer was waning and each of the days that were to follow would be a little colder and a little darker. +'-.rn-A., f--- -- OW FOR ARNEB The mission completed at Cape Hallett, the Arneb, under orders from Task Force 43 Commander Rear Admiral George Dufek, retraced her steps to McMurdo Sound arriv- ing at the mooring site on Jan. 12. SeaBees and ship's company immedi- ately began unloading the US NS Greenville Victory, and Admiral Dufek and his staff visited the Ar- neb to examine the damages sustain- ed in the New Year s storm. t soon was learned that the USS G acier AGB-4 would accompany the Arneb and the Greenville Vic- tory to Knox Coast. And, on Jan. 15, the Arneb, refuelled with 216, 223 gallons of oil, left withthe Task Force on the 2,000-mile iourney to the expected heavy ice of Vin- cennes Bay.