Bay of Whales
After threading her way through the pack ice over the ensuing weeks, "Yancey" finally arrived at Bay of Whales, Antarctica, mooring at the shelf ice on 18 January 1947. Subsequently, departing that "port" on 6 February for the area to the north of the ice floes, the attack cargo ship entered the pack ice on the 9th. Over the next three days, she pressed through the floes that extended for a width of almost .