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modern sounding machine which used the red Hght method up to 200 

 fathoms and recorded to that depth. In carrying out this program 

 the General Greene during the next 6 days, August 4 to 10, followed to 

 the southward the limits c':^ the pack ice and the sinuosities of the bot- 

 tom contour describing in general the route shown on the track chart. 

 The program of the post-season cruise 1938 being successfully com- 

 pleted the General Greene set course for St. John's, Newfoundland, 

 arriving there at 1508 August 10, 1938. 



On August 13, at 1140, the General Greene being in all respects 

 ready for sea departed St. John's, Newfoundland, for Woods Hole, 

 Mass., arriving there without incident at 1432, August 17, 1938. 



During the post-season cruise the General Greene cruised 4,218.0 

 miles and was under way 461 hours 26 minutes. 



TABLE OF ICE AND OBSTRUCTION REPORTS 



Name of vessel 



Lati- 

 tude 



Longi- 

 tude 



Description 



1937 

 Nov. 14 



19S8 



Jan. 20 



Jan. 22 



Jan. 23 



Jan. 24 



Jan. 25 



Jan. 29 



Feb. 1 



Feb. 4 



Feb. 6 



Feb. 8 



Feb. 10 

 ...do..__. 

 Feb. 13 

 Feb. 14 



.do- 



Cape Eace radio. 



..-.do 



....do 



do 



do 



— .do 



..-do 



do 



do 



do 



.-.do 



-...do 



Belle Isle radio.. 

 Cape Race radio. 



Feb. 15 



-do 



Feb. 16 



-do 



..do 



..do 



Kersten Miles ... 

 Cape Race radio. 

 Fort Amherst 



..do.... 



-.do..... 

 .-do.— 

 Feb. 17 

 Feb. 18 



Feb. 19 



.-do 



Bristol City. 



Steel Mariner... 



Bristol City 



Attienia 



Cape Race radio. 



.do. 



47 32 



46 47 



46 41 



46 40 



52 35 



52 56 



52 53 



53 00 



Koenigstein. 



Cape Ballard 

 Cape Race 

 Cape Race 

 Cape Race 

 Cape Race 

 Cape Race 



47 43 I 50 30 

 Cape Race 



46 43 I 52 58 



48 43 49 11 



[Between Cape 

 { Race and 

 I Cape Ballard 

 (48 30 I 48 10 

 \ to 



148 05 I 48 30 

 40 37 52 55 

 48 00 I 48 39 

 to 



47 30 



48 00 

 Cape Race 

 Cape Race 



f Black Rock, 

 \Newfoundland 

 [44 50 i 60 10 

 to 

 50 I 59 51 

 42 19 56 50 

 44 43 60 14 

 47 25 I 47 53 

 Cape Race 



Cape Race 



[48 21 i 49 38 



to 



'47 38 I 48 36 



!47 54 I 49 21 



to 



.47 33 I 50 08 



I 4^ 

 I 49 



(44 



Large berg. 



Berg. 



Do. 

 Berg (same as 3). 



Do. 

 2 bergs (same as 2 and 3). 

 Berg, 6 miles northeast. 

 Berg 6 miles northeast (same as 7). 



Do. 



Do. 

 Berg breaking up 6 miles northeast 



(same as 7). 

 Large berg. 



Berg 7 miles east (same as 7). 

 Berg and pieces (same as 7). 

 Scattered ice 10 miles southeasterly 



direction. 

 Large berg, one-half former size, break- 

 [ ing up (same as 7). 



^Field ice. 



Tree, 16 feet long. 



[Light field ice. 



Large area drifting field ice. 

 Strings of field ice, 5 miles east. 

 Strings of field ice, 4 miles east of Cape 



Race extending northeast as far as 



can be seen. 

 ■3 growlers aground. 



Large ice field. 



Black gas buoy, green top. 



Small field scattered ice. 



Berg and strings of field ice. 



Growler abeam 2 miles drifting rapidly 



westward. 

 Light field ice all directions. 



Scattered patches of small ice. 



Large ice field. 



