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' U. S. NAVAL DISPATCH HND Gen 1007 ' CLASSIFICATION PRECEDENCE Action: C I Io: USCGC NORTHININD f USS BURTON ISLAND - 5525522 - BEAUFORT SEA EXPEPITION 1954 OBTAINED Hvnao AND ocEAuocaAPHIc DATA IN AREAS NEVER BEFORE REACHED CWI' I'ADE FIRST TRANSIT IAC FLURE STRAIT BY SHIP IN HISTORY OF ARCTIC EXPLORATION CIW AVOIDED ALL DAMAGE FROM' IPONTH EARLY NEW ARCTIC' PIISSAGE IIIIN IIIIu.s. SHIPS ......1l- Push 'Thru Ice in McClure Strait BY LLOYD NORMAN fPie-ture on back pagej lfChlclgo Tribune Press Servlcel Washington, Aug. 27-The 350 year old mariners' dream ' of the Northwest Passage as a navigable channel across North America has finally been negotiated by two American: icebreakers, the navy an- nounced today. tic for shipping because of imp ssable ice most of the year. The icebreakers were not trying to establish a new route. The ships that passed thru ice-locked McClure strait, west- ern gateway to the channel leading from the Pacific to the Atlantic, are the navy- -ice- breaker Burton Island and the coast guard icebreaker North- wind. Equipped with Copters .T li e Burton Island under Cmdr. Everett A. Trickey of' Arlington, Va., broke thru the ri. CAN ice 'of McClure on-'an east to west voy- 11 to 1,6 and then re- th Q northern 'narrow passage Started her ,THE HEAVY ICE THESE AREAS AND COf'.'PL SCHEDULED OPS UOOBTOOO TOR TOD DATE lil9IGIII'2l'3i'4Il5I'6IWI'BIWIZOINIT Novy-D Navy ice experts said, how-l ever, that the route is not prac-I Bl' 230 West 41st Street, New York 36, N. Y. ' ' Telephone PEm-isylvania 6-4000 SATURDA CANADA Direct Route The legendary Northwest Passage, a di- rect Water route across the top of North America, has beenlthe goal of navigators since Explorer Henry Hudson perished trying to find it in r6rr. Norway's famed Roald Amundsen made a trip across in the '47-LOD yacht Gjda in IQOSQ the 80-ton Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner St. Roch fTIME, Aug. zj, commanded by Mountie Superintendent Henry A. Larsen, in 1942 became the first vessel to make the passage from west to east. But both Amundsen and Larsen sailed through Prince of Wales Strait, detouring around the broader, more direct but more norther- ly western exit: fog-shrouded, ice-choked McClure Strait. Last week the U.S. Navy announced that two U.S. icebreakers, the Navy's Burton Island and the Coast Guard's Northwind, had successfully cut their way through McClure on a joint U.S.- Canadian expedition. Neither ship made a complete passage from the Arctic to the Atlantic Oceang the Burton Island sailed through the Prince of Wales Strait from the west and turned around Banks Island to push westward again through McClure Strait Csee mapjg the North- wind pushed eastward from the Arctic Ocean. Both ships used helicopters to scout the best passage through the ice. Unusually heavy melting of barrier ice eased the passage, even so, the big 269-ft. icebreakers cut and crushed their way through ice four to ten feet thick. Although the new shortcut made the headlines, Canadian and U.S. scientists aboard the expedition had a more impor- tant mission: taking soundings and record- ing data on the Arctic seas. With accurate charts, an atomic submarine, such as the U.S.S. Nautilus ITIME, Jan. IID, could cruise from the Atlantic to the Pacific under the Arctic icepack, virtually invul- nerable to search and counterattack. TIME, SEPTEMBER 6, 1954 6556 1111 rv Copyright, 19 4 28, New York Herald TIII-71109 IDC Ends 5-Century Search U. S. Icebreakers Clear 7 Northwest Passage Route WASHINGTON. Aug. 27 GPL- Two United States icebreakers have smashed their way through the frozen wastes of the last un- explored link of the fabled Northwest Passage to find a water route from west to east, the Navy announced today. Significance of the exploit is something for the future to disclose. Some Navy oflicials be- lieve the Arctic channel might be used by atomic-powered sub- marines moving under the ice pack from one ocean to another. The Navy already has con- ducted extensive tests with sub- marines in Arctic waters. In ad- dition, Russia is said to have established stations in some Arctic areas. 'Island and the Northwind en- countered thieknesses of ice ranging from four to ten feet in better than normal ice melting conditions. Two-Way Trip The Navy said the 269-foot Burton Island, skippered by Comdr. Everett A. Trickey, Ar- lington, Va., pounded its way through McClure Strait east to, west Aug. 11-16. It made the return trip Aug. 16-19. The 269-foot Northwind, com- manded by Capt. William L. Maloney, Bayside, Queens, en- tered the strait from the Arctic Ocean and went through along the southern edge between Aug. 13 and 21. The strait is named for Brit-
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