Bollinger Shipyards is moving forward with design work and construction of the Coast Guard’s first new heavy icebreaker in ...
The Department of Homeland Security has decided to modify the U.S. Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter (PSC) icebreaker ...
Bollinger Shipyards on Tuesday announced it has received a $951.6 million contract to proceed with building the United States’ first new polar icebreaker in nearly 50 years. The Lockport, La.-ba ...
newest polar icebreaker, the USCG Michael A. Healy. Under the purchase order from Avondale, Westinghouse will provide four 12-cylinder, 10,600-hp ZA40S medium-speed engines. The company is working ...
Capt. Michele Schallip says if the U.S. Coast Guard’s Healy icebreaker she commands was suddenly homeported in Juneau rather ...
to go toward the purchase and outfitting of a commercially available icebreaker for the U.S. Coast Guard. In recent years, ...
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10 ... The Seattle-based cutter is a 399-foot heavy polar icebreaker commissioned in 1976, weighing 13,500 tons and is 84-feet wide with a 34-foot draft.