Glacier (WAGB 4) - Naval Cruise Book

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EXECUTIVE OFFICER CDR PAUL L. HAGSTROM 4 L Commander Hagstrom came to the Glacier in the summer of 1984 during the MMA period He came from the Eighth District where he was Chief of Naval Engineering Branch. Three afloat tours, graduate school and a spell at Headquarters round out his Coast Guard career. Deep Freeze 86 marked his second Antarctic deployment as XO aboard Glacier. — r £f ABO t LT Glover. CDR Hagstrom and CW02 Cam Three more of the happy ' winners in the Coast Guards Exotic Cruise sweepstakes. LEFT: As ?nce between

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COMMANDING OFFICER CAPT WILLIAM P. HEWEL Captain Hewel is married to the former Roxie McMahon of Morgantown, N.C. and has two grown children, John and Lisa He has had many varied and demanding assignments since joining the Coast Guard. Some of the more interesting and challenging include CO Coast Guard LORAN Station Ulithi Atoll in the Caroline Islands, XO USCGC Mesquite, CO USCGC Basswood, CO USCGC Northwind and XO USCGC Glacier. He has also served as Chief, Ice Operations and Chief, Marine Science Division. A veteran of several Arctic and Ant- arctic deployments, he is well qualified to lead the crew of Glacier once again to Antarctica. ABOVE: It ' s lonely at the top. RIGHT: Capt Hammond discusses the Glacier on the trip up from San Francisco, with Capt Hewel prior to relieving him.

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USCGC GLACIER HISTORY! THE BEGIN1NG Hello there! I ' m the United States Coast Guard Cutter GLACIER (WAGB-4), and I am delighted that you have pur- chased this book as it gives me a chance to tell you my side of the story. The 1986 cruise book commitee was hon- est enough to admit that no-one knew my history better than 1; so they agreed to let me narrate my exciting expe- riences. Oh, I ' m really tickled. Where should I start? Going back to when I was conceived would be the most logical place to begin. Follow me, - by the way - that became my proud motto through the years -and still is! Follow Me — and I will lead you through my thirty years of accomplish- ments. I had my keel laid on August 3, 1953, at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Company at Pascagoula, Mississippi; got my bottom christened on August 27, 1954, and was commissi- oned into the U.S. Navy as the USS GLACIER (AGB-4) on Mav 27, 1955. I ' m proud to say that I was the Navy ' s most modern and largest icebreaker, and contained the largest diesel electric plant afloat in the free world at that time. I was named after Alaska ' s Glacier Bay, and told I was the fourth Navy ship to bear that name. lam 310-feet long, have a 74-foot bust, and need a pool of water at least 30-feet deep to swim in. I can carry more than 20 officers and 300 enlisted, and 20 or more scientists. My ten 1 2-cyl- inder diesel engines are capable of generating 21,000 horse-power and drive my heavily-armored bow up onto and through the ice. To loosen gripping ice, my special build-in heelingsystem can inducean artificial ten-degree roll by shifting 69,000 gallons of fuel from side to side in 72 seconds flat. My twin 17 ' 2-foot diameter propellers can push my buxom 8,900-tons around the world non- stop with the 720,000 gallons of fuel I can carry. ? - - i fc ;- ' . THE FIRST DECADE - THE DECADE OF CHALLENGE Operation Deep Freeze I (1955-56) was my combination shake-down cruise and maiden voyage; in support of the United States participation in the first International Geophys- ical Year scientific program in the Antarctica, the head of which was Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, USN-Ret. After tow- ing a self-propelled gasoline barge (YOG) from New Jersey all the way to Port Lyttelton, New Zealand, one of the long- est tows recorded by an icebreaker, (my very first record), 1 made my first encounter with Antarctic ice in December 1955, (Whew, it was cold stuff!). After breaking through the Ross Ice Pack, I carved out an ice harbor in Kainan Bay to permit the offloading of cargo ships at the site of the Little America V scientific station on the Ross Ice Shelf. This was the same area of previous Little America stations established