Title taken from slide mount. Base Ketchikan was established in 1920 as a Lighthouse Service Depot and officially became part of the Coast Guard in 1940.
Title from accompanying material. Sailors on board U.S.C.C. Bear (Revenue cutter). There appears to be an animal, possibly a duck or a goat, in the middle of the life preserver.
Title from caption. Captions read "U.S.R.C. Bear off Nome on Fourth of July" and "Photo by R. Grassow." The Bear is shown here decorated with miscellaneous marine flags. Apparently under steam power with smoke visible from the smokestack.
Title from caption. Captions read "Sailing on San Diego Bay", "U.S.S. Bear and Point Loma in the distance", and "Lee Passmore Photo." Several sailboats (left) and a person in a rowboat (right) are seen here in front of the Revenue Cutter Bear.
Title from caption (top). These two ships are in port at Unalaska. Identity of creator inferred from initials at bottom right (R.G.)and comparison with UAF-2004-93-5.
Title from accompanying material. Many photographs of the Bear show her underway with black smoke coming from her smokestack. Here a sail provides the power. This appears to be an enlargement of UAF-2004-93-10.