between 47° N., and 48°40' N. No ice was sighted on either flight 

 although the visibility was good and radar was employed to supple- 

 ment the visual search. On the 12th two flights were again under- 

 taken, one searching the eastern slope of the Banks about 25 to 

 30 miles inshore of the track of the 11th and scouting from the 

 Banks northward to the vicinity of 50°30' N., at 50° W., thence 

 northwest to a point about 170 miles north of Fogo Island then 

 returning south over Fogo Island to Argentia. The other flight 

 searched the area from the beach eastward to 50° W., between 

 48°20' N., and 49°50' N. Except for small areas north of Fogo 

 Island, where visibility was reduced by scattered snow showers, 

 both flights again were fortunate in better than average weather 

 conditions for observation with visibility generally exceeding 10 

 miles. Neither flight observed any ice in the offshore areas, all 

 ice observed being conflned to the area along the Newfoundland 

 coast in Bonavista Bay and westward from Cape Freels. 



Again on the 13th two observational flights were made. One of r 

 these was confined to the area south of the Avalon Peninsula, 

 successfully relocating the growler that had been reported on the 

 9th, but detecting no other ice in that area. The other flight searched 

 the coastal area northward to Hamilton Inlet. Some movement was 

 apparent in the ice along the coast east of Fogo Island, a tongue 

 of that ice having rounded Cape Freels to about midway across n 

 the mouth of Bonavista Bay, but no further field ice was sighted , 

 until the flight had reached the latitude of Sandwich Bay, Labrador. 

 There a field of broken pans with the outer edge about 50 miles off- 

 shore extended northward out sight past Hamilton Inlet. The south- 

 ern edge extended southwest from the point of observation to 

 beyond the limit of visibility, but was apparently trending toward 

 Spotted Island. This ice consisted entirely of small, round flat pansi jij, 

 of light winter ice, mostly between 5 and 10 feet in diameter, but|]e, 

 with some pans in the inner portion up to 25 feet in diameter. Nojji. 

 rafting was evident, and though the ice was closely packed, large 

 pools and leads of open water were present, especially in the outer 

 portion. 



The ice in the entrance to Hamilton Inlet was breaking out with 

 large areas of open water present as far inland as the narrows and 

 only that ice immediately adjacent to the southern shore remained 

 as a solid sheet. Lake Melville and tributary waters inland from the 

 narrows, however, were solidly covered with no cracks evident 

 through the snow covering. Although this flight and the northerly 

 leg of the flight on the 12th were too far seaward to observe defi- 

 nitely that no ice remained in the area immediately adjacent to the 

 beach between St. Barbe Islands and Spotted Island, the visibility 

 experienced on the 13th was at times so great as to permit an occa- 

 sional glimpse of the shoreline and it is considered doubtful that 



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