Word: patroller
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Blowing up gigantic icebergs, warning ships of their presence and position on the treacherous Grand Banks, and keeping track of the exact position of any where from 50 to 100 of these engines of destruction is the duty of the International Observation and Ice Patrol Service...
...maiden trip and sunk with the loss of 1500 lives. The British Government invited the nations of the world to a conference held at London where an agreement was drafted and later signed by which all the powers agreed to help defray the expenses of an International Ice Patrol in proportion to their respective shipping...
...duties of the patrol were assigned to the United States Revenue Cutter service. Since then with the exception of the War years 1917 and 1918, the patrol has been maintained by the Coast Guard service...
...cutters, the Tampa and Modoc, alternate in patrolling the ice region for 15 successive days, and at the end of that time one patrol vessel is relieved by the other which rests in Halifax. The oceanographic staff, however, is obliged to spend over six months without sight of land, changing from one cutter to the other by lifeboat. The duties of this staff are numerous and consist of broadcasting radio reports to all vessels in the vicinity, making charts of the behavior of the bergs and of studying general oceanic conditions. The Green-Bigelow bottle, invented by H. B. Bigelow...
...particularly large berg, on the Banks themselves, where it is pounded to pieces by the waves. Often a berg will skirt the Banks and drift southward into the Transatlantic shipping lanes where it becomes a menace to liners and merchantmen, and provides work for the Ice Patrol...