The U.S. Coast Guard’s quest to buy a new fleet of icebreakers has drawn interest from both domestic and international ...

The Coast Guard owns both vessels, the heavy icebreaker Polar Star and the medium icebreaker Healy. Both ships are approaching the end of their service lives (the Polar Star was commissioned in ...

Icebreakers have reinforced hulls that add weight to the ships ... when the Polar Star was built, including the ones that built that icebreaker and the Healy. Many senior shipyard workers from ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10) and crew recently returned to the United States, arriving in San Francisco ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10) and crew returned to the United States, arriving in San Francisco Sunday, following a 128-day deployment to Antarctica in support of Operation Deep ...

with the first of those ships now potentially not set to be delivered until 2028. The service currently only has one operational heavy icebreaker, the USCGC Polar Star, which is becoming ...

captain of the Russian ship Igor Kiselev told Itar-Tass on Sunday. He gave comments on the reports by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority that the heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star will leave ...

Bollinger Shipyards has received a modified $951.6 million contract from the Coast Guard to go ahead with building the first heavy polar icebreaker constructed in the U.S. in nearly 50 years.

Subsequent ships are estimated at $1.6 billion ... the 27-year-old medium icebreaker USCGC Healy and the 49-year-old heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star. The Coast Guard’s other heavy icebreaker ...

The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, a heavy icebreaker homeported in Seattle, breaks ice near the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station, Antarctica, Jan. 13, 2015. (George Degener/Coast Guard) ...