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 ...

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) crew and embarked researchers ventured onto a floe of multi-year ice for the first of three multi-instrument ice stations in the Arctic Ocean Basin late July ...

President Donald Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' earmarks more than $8.6 billion to increase the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker fleet in the Arctic, where Washington hopes to counter rising Russian and ...

A fire aboard cutter Healy has sidelined the icebreaker. (Janes/Michael Fabey) A recent fire aboard the medium icebreaker US Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) Healy (WAGB-20) has threatened US naval presence ...

USCGC Argus launches at the Eastern Shipbuilding Group shipyard in Panama City, Florida, October 27. Space for the rear helicopter deck and be seen to the right. Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. Each ...

The US Coast Guard is relying on cutters such as icebreaker Healy to provide a presence in the high latitudes. (Michael Fabey) The joint Chinese-Russian surface action group (SAG) of about 10 naval ...

SEATTLE — The only U.S. vessel capable of breaking a navigable channel through ice up to 21 feet thick departed Seattle on Wednesday for its annual Antarctic deployment, the Coast Guard said. The U.S.

The Pentagon has been warning since 2022 that the US desperately needed more icebreaker ships. The United States Coast Guard commissioned a vessel last weekend that could be crucial to US military ...