330-PSA-167-60 (USN 710770):  Artist Walter W. Bollendonk’s concept of the surfaced USS Seadragon during her east-west polar voyage.  Mr. Bollendonk spent three days onboard Seadragon at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard prior to the Seadragon’s cruise, to discuss this and other paintings which he plans to do from photographs taken by the Seadragon while in Polar waters.  When completed, his series of paintings will become part of the Navy’s art collection.  Bollendonk is a member of the Naval Art Co-operation and Liason Committee under the Salmagundi Club, a New York Artist’s club.  The N.A.C.A.L. Committee was established to help update the Navy’s Art Collection.  Bollendonk is an art illustrator for the New York Journal American, August 25, 1960.  Master caption:  USS Seadragon’s Polar Voyage.  USS Seadragon become the first ship to negotiate the Parry Channel thorough the Canadian Archipelago.  Seadragon left Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on August 1, 1960 and went up the Greenland-Labrador slot through Davis Strait and Baffin Bay.  She entered Parry Channel August 15 at Lancaster Sound, proceeded through Melville Sound and McClure Strait to complete the channel passage August 21.  Once through the Archipelago, the Seadragon continued northward to the pole, and then to Honolulu, Hawaii, where she will report for duty with the Pacific Fleet Submarine Force around September 9, 1960.  The 2,360 ton ship is captained by Commander George P. Steele, II, USN.  During her polar transit, Seadragon performed a “first” by going under an iceberg 879 feet wide and 1,470 feet long and more than 300 feet deep.  The berg was located in Baffin Bay. (9/9/2015).
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