Oh 5 May, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Evergreen which had just 

 completed the second oceanographic survey was ordered to proceed 

 to locate and standby the southernmost berg estmiated near 43° N., 

 49° W. Conditions for aerial observation had been very poor and 

 remained so until 9 May when two flights were made to search out 

 all areas where icebergs were suspected from the Tail of the Banks 

 north along the slope to 48° N. Due to negative search results by 

 the Evergreen and aircraft for the previously reported southernmost 

 berg and because the negligible amount of ice in a potential position 

 to threaten Track B, the Evergreen was released from the search. 

 These successful flights on 9 May revealed that there were only four 

 small bergs remaining east of 51° W. 



By 12 May, 55 bergs were estimated south of 48° N. and most of 

 these were close along the east coast of Avalon Peninsula and within 

 a 90-mile radius of Cape Race. A flight on the 14th along the north 

 slope of the Grand Banks and northward to 50° N. showed that there 

 were no bergs east of 52°30' N. between the north slope of the Grand 

 Banks and 50° N. The only bergs south of 48° N. were close along 

 shore or in the vicinity of Cape Race and therefore any threat to the 

 Track in effect was considerably reduced and must now come from the 

 vicinity of Cape Freels and Funk Island. On this flight, about 80 

 bergs were sighted in the latter area, some of which were large bergs. 

 These would bear watching for the next couple of weeks. By 19 May, 

 there were only 20 bergs south of 48° N. and on 31 May, only 12 bergs, 

 most of them small, remained south of 48° N. 



On 19 May, a flight established the fact that the second front of 

 bergs for 1962 was making its move to the east-southeast. These 

 were a few of the many bergs sighted between Funk Island, Fogo 

 Island, and Cape Freels on the 14th. The leading bergs had drifted 

 to the vicinity of 49°40' N., 52° W. The past few days had been a 

 period of west to southwest winds driving the bergs near Funk Island 

 out to the east into the Labrador Current for the trip to the south or 

 east. One of these bergs was a very large pinnacled berg estimated 

 about 250 feet high. As a result of an average northerly wind for 

 the next week, the drift of the leaders of the second front was to the 

 south to near 48°30' N., 52° W. during this period. Whether or not 

 any of these bergs would drift east with the eastern branch of the 

 Labrador Current or drift slowly south with the weak western branch 

 was determined in the next few days as southwesterly winds moved 

 the bergs into the east branch for the ride to the east. By the end of 

 the month the easternmost berg had reached 49°30' W. However, 

 the large pinnacled berg was apparently aground and fortunately^ 

 failed to drift east at this time, and most of 15 or so bergs moving east 

 were small. It was only a matter of how far they could manage to 

 drift southeast and south into warmer waters prior to melting. 



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