The U.S. Coast Guard announced an unexpected engine casualty aboard Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea, one of the service’s three polar icebreakers, will prohibit the icebreaker from getting underway for ...

Last May, DHS approved production of the service’s first polar security cutter to be built in nearly five decades.

Required number of polar icebreakers. A 2023 Coast Guard fleet mix analysis concluded that the service will require a total of eight to nine polar icebreakers, including four to five heavy polar ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) - The U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy received approval for the construction of the first Polar Security Cutter. It will be built at Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding in ...

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A House panel on Wednesday leveled bipartisan criticism at the Coast Guard for delays in building Polar Security cutters needed to offset the growing Russian and Chinese activity in the Arctic. U.S.

The Seattle-based Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star on Dec. 7, 2020, ahead of the crew’s months-long deployment to the Arctic. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer First Class Cynthia Oldham) The ...

Current operational polar icebreaker fleet. The operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In ...

The US Coast Guard says it will need more icebreakers for polar operations. (VT Halter Marine/Technology Associates) As the US Coast Guard (USCG) is planning for a bigger fleet of new icebreakers, the ...

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has finished awarding contracts for 11 new Arctic Security Cutters, a move that will reshape America’s small but important icebreaker fleet. The decision, announced in ...

A House panel this week leveled bipartisan criticism at the Coast Guard for delays in building Polar Security cutters needed to offset the growing Russian and Chinese activity in the Arctic. U.S. Rep.