porterrachel
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- Aug 30, 2009
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reads:
"This is to certify that Stribbling, Juarl R. S1, while serving onboard the USS Seminole AKA-104 crossed the Artic Circle on 7, August in the year 1947 AD to enter the Northern Domain of the Polar Bear"
(also has hand-written "Point Burrow, Alaska", and I think the Captian's name is Boyd)
It measures about 17 by 20 inches.
I found this in my late-grandmother's house, which was a boarding house at one point in time, and took it to the history professors at Texas Tech University, and after declaring it authentic, they could tell me nothing else. So, I called the Navy Base in Florida, who were very friendly until I sent them a picture, then they were very short and simply said "It's nothing.", but didn't give me any information on the document. I got the same response from the museum in Washington DC. I googled it, and only found one website (http://www.geocities.com/darmabum1/BlueNose.html), it had 11 links, but all of them had been shut down. On the Navy website, they have duplicates of certificates that you can buy, but not of this one. There is also no record of the ship from 1946-1950, but this certificate is dated 1947. I tried looking up a birth or death certificate for the man named on the certificate, but there is no record of him either. Any help that could be offered would be much appreciated.
See image here:
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3483/rporterndpb.jpg
"This is to certify that Stribbling, Juarl R. S1, while serving onboard the USS Seminole AKA-104 crossed the Artic Circle on 7, August in the year 1947 AD to enter the Northern Domain of the Polar Bear"
(also has hand-written "Point Burrow, Alaska", and I think the Captian's name is Boyd)
It measures about 17 by 20 inches.
I found this in my late-grandmother's house, which was a boarding house at one point in time, and took it to the history professors at Texas Tech University, and after declaring it authentic, they could tell me nothing else. So, I called the Navy Base in Florida, who were very friendly until I sent them a picture, then they were very short and simply said "It's nothing.", but didn't give me any information on the document. I got the same response from the museum in Washington DC. I googled it, and only found one website (http://www.geocities.com/darmabum1/BlueNose.html), it had 11 links, but all of them had been shut down. On the Navy website, they have duplicates of certificates that you can buy, but not of this one. There is also no record of the ship from 1946-1950, but this certificate is dated 1947. I tried looking up a birth or death certificate for the man named on the certificate, but there is no record of him either. Any help that could be offered would be much appreciated.
See image here:
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3483/rporterndpb.jpg
