Seattle Rotary Mariners Luncheon with PSM

You're Invited to Bear's Birthday!
 
Saturday, March 16th
11:30-3pm
Puget Sound Maritime
Buffet Luncheon and Program Celebrating the
150th Launching Anniversary of
The USRC Bear
at the Coast Guard Museum Northwest in Seattle

Program: Join us on Saturday, March 16th, at the Seattle USCG Base for a special luncheon to celebrate the 150th Birthday of the famous US Revenue Cutter Bear. We'll be gathering at 11:30AM at the Coast Guard Museum Northwest. Then we'll move upstairs to the Bear Room for a pasta luncheon and program meeting.
 
Following the meeting, we will head downstairs to the exhibits gallery where Captain Gene Davis, Ret., the museum director and curator will give us an exclusive tour concentrating on artifacts from the USRC Bear. As the exhibits tell, she had many heroic stories over her long years including her most challenging, "The Rescue at the Top of the World."
 
Here is a bit of that story...Winter came early to the Arctic in 1899. The frigid temps made pack ice north of Bering Strait as the North American whaling fleet became trapped, stranding 300 men. Three ships escaped southward to sound the alarm about the calamity. 
 
Cutter Bear was just returning to Seattle after a full season patrollingover 20,000 square miles of the Arctic Ocean when a messenger ran up the gangplank with an urgent telegram for Bear's Captain Tuttle.
 
Three of the crew, anxious to return to their familiars soon found themselves headed back to sea, steaming as far north amidst the ice as possible. Then these men debarked and commenced a 1500 mile overland trek, driving 300 reindeer and dog teams carrying supplies for the stranded whalers.
 
Join us Saturday, March 16th!
 
Tickets: Tickets are $30 for Members and Guests, $35 for non-members. Deadline 8pm March 12th for USCG Base security clearance.
Ticket sales link below. Invite a friend!
 
Parking: Free parking is included. Enter through the main gate, check in at the guard booth, and park near the museum at the north end of the base.
 
Government-issued Photo ID required. To enter the US Coast Guard Base you must present government-issued photo ID. This must match the names you provided when you purchase your tickets. 

To purchase tickets, please CLICK HERE.