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longitude 50°44' W.; and June 6, berg, latitude 51°50' N., longitude 

 54°22' W.; berg, latitude 51°4r N., longitude 54°21' W. 



On June 9, no further ice menace to the United States-European 

 lane routes existing and no bergs having been reported south of lati- 

 tude 49° N., since May 22, the ice-observation service in the North 

 Atlantic was discontinued for the season 1936 in accordance with 

 headquarters' dispatch 0201-1115 at 1200, June 9, 1936. Lt. G. Van. 

 A. Graves was transferred to the General Greene to assume temporary 

 command of that vessel for the duration of the post-season oceano- 

 graphic cruise, and at 1310, Jiuie 9, the Champlain proceeded to New 

 York, N, Y., stopping en route at Boston, Mass., to deliver pilot- 

 balloon gear to the Boston division office, arriving there at 1030^ 

 June 13, 1936. (See fig. 24.) 



The following is a summary of ice and water-temperature reports 

 received during the cruise: 



Number of bergs south of 48°00' N 



Number of bergs south of 45°00' N 



Number of water temperature reports received 400 



Number of ice reports received 48- 



Number of vessels furnishing ice reports 31 



Number of vessels furnishing water-temperature reports 22: 



Number of vessels furnished special information 15 



POST-SEASON OCEANOGRAPHIC AND ICE-OBSERVATION CRUISE^ 

 "GENERAL GREENE", JUNE 18 TO JULY 10, 1936 



The General Greene departed St. John's, Newfoundland, at 1417,, 

 June 18, 1936. and set course for South Wolf Island, Labrador, tO' 

 begin the oceanographic work of the cruise. During this run bergs- 

 were located in the following positions: berg, latitude 51°22' N.,. 

 longitude 53°26' W. ; two bergs, latitude 50°44' N., longitude 53°ir W. ; 

 berg, latitude 53°07' N., longitude 54°51' W. The weather running 

 up the coast was clear and mild. At 0927, June 20, the first of a line 

 of 22 stations extending from South Wolf Island, Labrador, across- 

 the entrance to Davis Strait to Cape Farewell, Greenland, was 

 occupied. This section was completed without incident at 2000,. 

 June 24, in 45 fathoms of water only 3 miles off the coast just inside 

 the south point of Cape Farewell. On this run ice was sighted only 

 adjacent to the Labrador and Greenland coasts as follows: on June 

 20, 7 bergs in scattered positions along the ship's track extending 

 northeast from South Wolf Island, Labrador, to longitude 54°12' W.,. 

 and on June 24, numerous bergs and hundreds of growlers and 

 scattered open pack ice from latitude 59°31' N., longitude 44°22' W.,. 

 to Cape Farewell, 100 bergs and open pack ice from Cape Farewell 

 west to longitude 44°30' W., and hundreds of large bergs along the 

 coast, and south as far as could be seen, from latitude 59°40' N., 

 longitude 44°30' W., due west to longitude 46°00' W. (See fig. 6.) 



