The Frozen North-This serial photo shows three Coast Guard vessels clearing a channel through Western Lake Erie ice. the ice described as the worst in recent years, ranges from three feet thick in the channels to 14-foot high windrows. From the left the vessels are the cutters Tupelo and acacia and the tug Kaw.

Associated Press · [ca. January 1963]

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