G. S. Patrick G. S. Patrick Goldsborough Serpell Patrick (26 April 1907 – 21 March 1999) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. Patrick was born Goldsborough Serpell Patrick on Goat Island in San Francisco, California. He was the son of Jane Deakins Serpell of Norfolk, Virginia, and Navy Chaplain Capt Bower Reynolds Patrick. He died 21 March 1999 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Patrick's first assignments were aboard the destroyers , and . On December 7, 1941, Patrick was stationed at Pearl Harbor. During the attack that day, his directive that moored ships store live ammunition in their gun mounts would
CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent St-Laurent" and USCGC "Polar Sea" became the first North American surface vessels to reach the North Pole. In the summer of 2006, CBC TV's "" broadcast from "Louis S. St-Laurent" in a special series focused on climate change. The vessel was originally scheduled to be decommissioned in 2000 however a refit extended the decommissioning date to 2017. In the 26 February 2008 federal budget, the Government of Canada announced it was funding a $721 million "Polar Class Icebreaker" (named ) as a replacement vessel for "Louis S. St-Laurent". In 2014, with , "Louis S. St-Laurent" performed a cruise to the