{"id":61851,"date":"2021-10-17T03:10:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T03:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61851"},"modified":"2022-02-02T17:24:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T17:24:26","slug":"coast-guard-wreck-found-in-atlantic-is-storied-cutter-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61851","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard: Wreck found in Atlantic is storied cutter Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coast Guard: Wreck found in Atlantic is storied cutter Bear<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2021-10-14<\/p>\n

Mark Pratt<\/strong><\/a>, Reporter\/Editor
\nThe Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n

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In this July 1908 photograph provided by the U.S. Coast Guard Historian\u2019s Office<\/a>, the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear<\/a> sits at anchor while on Bering Sea Patrol<\/a> off Alaska<\/a>. The wreckage of the storied vessel, that served in two World Wars<\/a> and patrolled frigid Arctic waters<\/a> for decades, has been found, the Coast Guard said Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. (U.S. Coast Guard Historian\u2019s Office via AP) (Uncredited\/U.S. Coast Guard Historian\u2019s Office)<\/em><\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BOSTON<\/a> \u2014 The wreck of a storied military ship that served in two World Wars<\/a>, performed patrols in waters off Alaska<\/a> for decades, and at one point was captained by the first Black man to command a U.S. government vessel has been found, the Coast Guard<\/a> said Thursday.<\/p>\n

A wreck thought to be the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear<\/a>, which sank in 1963 about 260 miles east of Boston<\/a> as it was being towed to Philadelphia<\/a>, where it was going to be converted into a floating restaurant, was located in 2019.<\/p>\n

But it was only in August that a team of experts looking at the evidence came to the conclusion that they are \u201creasonably certain\u201d that the wreck is indeed the Bear, officials of the Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/a> said at a waterfront news conference in Boston.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time of the loss of Bear, it was already recognized as a historic ship,\u201d said Joe Hoyt<\/a>, of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries<\/a>…<\/p>\n

…Thursday\u2019s announcement coincided with the arrival in Boston of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy<\/a>, named after the Bear\u2019s captain from 1886 until 1895, Michael \u201cHell Roaring Mike\u201d Healy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Healy, an icebreaker commissioned in 1999, recently completed a transit of the Arctic Northwest Passage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Healy, born in 1839, was the son of a Georgia<\/a> plantation owner and a slave. Healy\u2019s father sent him to Massachusetts<\/a> to escape enslavement, [William] Thiesen<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

He likened the Healy \u2014 commissioned by Abraham Lincoln<\/a> a month before the president\u2019s assassination<\/a> \u2014 to an Old West<\/a> sheriff, whose jurisdiction was an area the size of the lower 48 states<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile he never, during his lifetime, self-identified as African American, perhaps to avoid the prejudice he would likely have encountered in his personal life and career, he was in reality the first person of African American descent to command a ship of the U.S. Government,\u201d a NOAA news release said…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BOSTON \u2014 The wreck of a storied military ship that served in two World Wars, performed patrols in waters off Alaska for decades, and at one point was captained by the first Black man to command a U.S. government vessel has been found, the Coast Guard said Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,6462,6940,20],"tags":[32131,5704,3711,32127,32123,3712,26044,22346,32126,32905,32128,32129,32130,32133,2875,32124,22350,32125,2581,32134,32132],"class_list":["post-61851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-passing-2","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-adolphus-greely","tag-alaska","tag-boston","tag-joe-hoyt","tag-mark-pratt","tag-massachusetts","tag-michael-a-healy","tag-michael-healy","tag-michael-hell-roaring-mike-healy","tag-mike-healy","tag-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration","tag-noaa","tag-office-of-national-marine-sanctuaries","tag-richard-byrd","tag-the-washington-post","tag-u-s-revenue-cutter-bear","tag-united-states-coast-guard","tag-uss-bear","tag-washington-post","tag-william-h-thiesen","tag-william-thiesen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61851"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62953,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61851\/revisions\/62953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}