Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Cynthia Oldham The Seattle-based Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, the nation’s sole heavy icebreaker, is making its way north for the ship’s first winter Arctic ...
The Polar Star (WAGB 10), a Seattle-based US Coast Guard Cutter, departed Friday for a months-long deployment to Antarctica. The Polar Star will be a part of Operation Deep Freeze, a joint ...
HOBART, Australia — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10) crew departed Hobart, December 21, 2022, to begin their journey across the Southern Ocean en route to Antarctica in support of ...
“The Coast Guard, our nation’s primary operator in the Arctic, is reliant on just one aging heavy icebreaker, the Polar Star, which is ... s first Polar Security Cutter is starting this ...
The Trump administration ousted Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan, who is the first woman to lead a branch of the U.S.
The U.S. Coast Guard currently operates one heavy icebreaker, the 399-foot Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, commissioned in 1976, and one medium-sized icebreaker, the 420-foot Coast Guard Cutter Healy, ...
The U.S. Coast Guard currently operates one heavy icebreaker, the 399-foot Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, commissioned in 1976, and one medium-sized icebreaker, the 420-foot Coast Guard Cutter ...
The Department of Homeland Security this week will consider a Coast Guard request to give the nod to Bollinger Shipyards to begin construction of the nation’s first new heavy polar icebreaker in ...
It’s unclear how long it might take to cut the Canadian freighter Manitoulin out of the Lake Erie ice, which is thick this year.