The Coast Guard has determined it would be too costly to refurbish the heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) and has designated the ship a “parts donor” to sister ship USCGC Polar Star ...

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.

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 ...

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. Polar Star is now located at the Navy’s ...

The United States’ only heavy icebreaker will soon be back in service after a four-year, $90 million renovation. The USCGC Polar Star is scheduled to leave Unalaska Friday to undergo several ...

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 ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - The U.S. Coast Guard’s newest polar icebreaker is officially operational, which the agency says will bolster its Arctic operations. The 360-foot-long icebreaker departed from ...

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.

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.

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Cutter Polar Star, pictured carving through ice in this 2017 USCG image, supported the Naval Postgraduate School research team in the field during a detailed study ...