Currently involved in a debate over whether or not the following photograph is accurately captioned:
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Skate (SSN-578), surfaced at the North Pole, 17 March 1959. Image from NAVSOURCE
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Can anyone confirm if this is actually an image of the
Skate after surfacing at the geographic North Pole on March 17? There is a question over whether the photograph agrees with Calvert's description of the conditions that day in
Surface at the Pole and with the position of the sun at that time of year at the North Pole. Is it possible that this image is either 1) of the
Skate at the Pole on a different day, or 2) of the
Skate at a different location in the Arctic.
Here is another photo also captioned as March 17, 1959:
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Crew of the USS Skate during the memorial ceremony for Wilkins on March 17, 1959. Wilkins' ashes were scattered over the Arctic ice. Wilkins 35-5-4.
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