Auxiliary Bear Heads South

WED 22 NOV 1939
Auxiliary Bear (AG-29) departs Boston, Massachusetts, as part of the U.S. Antarctic Service [Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, USN (Ret.)] to investigate and survey the land and sea areas of Antarctica (see 14 January 1940).

U.S. freighter Exmouth is detained at Gibraltar by British authorities (see 5 December).