The USCGC Storis will join the USCGC Polar Star and the USCGC Healy as part of the Polar Security Cutter Program.

A second heavy icebreaker, USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11), exists today only as a parts-donor for Polar Star. A medium icebreaker, USCGC Healy (WAGB-20), can’t operate in Antarctica.

The Coast Guard has determined it would be too costly to refurbish the heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Sea and has designated the ship a parts donor.

Polar Sea’s sister ship, USCGC Polar Star (WAGB 10), has been out of service for more than a decade and used as a source of parts for Polar Sea.

Coast Guard heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star got closer to Santa’s home than most as they set a record for the northernmost wintertime navigation by a U.S. vessel on Christmas Day.

The U.S. Coast Guard's only heavy icebreaker, the USCGC Polar Star, transits through pack ice in the Southern Ocean, December 2022. (PO3 Aidan Cooney/Coast Guard) Full production of a new polar ...

As the Coast Guard’s only remaining heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star gets underway, the servicemembers aboard will join the tens of thousands of Americans deployed over the waves and far from ...

The USCGC Polar Star is scheduled to leave Unalaska Friday to undergo several weeks of ice trials in the Arctic. Download Audio The 399-foot-long ship is painted bright red.

It was only the second time that Carpenter, 23, had driven the 16,400-ton USCGC Healy, one of the U.S. military’s two working polar icebreakers. He turned the ship slightly to the left in the ...

As Russia and other countries seek to increase their presence in the Polar Regions, the U.S. should seek out options for producing an icebreaker.

USCGC Polar Star -Designed for open-water icebreaking -Has a reinforced hull and special icebreaking bow -Can continuously break 1.8 meters of ice at 3 knots -Can break 6.4 meters of ice backing ...