330-PSA-167-60 (USN 710779): Scientist Walter I. Whitman, Ice Forecaster, accompanying the crew of USS Seadragon on its trans-polar voyage, stands on the bow of the submarine taking weather data in the middle ice pack of Davis Straits, August 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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