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Coast Guard Icebreaker Polar Star Breaks Out McMurdo Station in Antarctica

23 January 2020

The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star moves through pack ice Dec. 28, 2019, about 200 miles north of McMurdo Station, Antarctica. The 43-year-old Polar Star is the nation’s only heavy icebreaker. This year marks the 64th iteration of the operation known as Operation Deep Freeze. U.S. Coast Guard photograph

The nation’s only heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) finished bashing a 23-mile channel through pack ice on Wednesday to reach the National Science Foundation’s research facility, McMurdo...

https://news.usni.org/2020/01/23/coast-guard-icebreaker-polar-star-breaks-out-mcmurdo-station-in-antarctica

McMurdo Station Expansion Relies on Coast Guard Heavy Icebreaker

30 September 2019

USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) off McMurdo Sound near McMurdo Station, a United States Antarctic research center in 2018. US Air Force Photo

WASHINGTON, D.C. – For the next several years, the Coast Guard’s only heavy icebreaker will lead the annual Antarctic resupply mission as the service develops its new class of icebreaker.

Called the McMurdo Breakout, the Coast Guard’s heavy icebreaker, USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10), starts the journey to Antarctica every year at the end of October or early...

https://news.usni.org/2019/09/30/mcmurdo-station-expansion-relies-on-coast-guard-heavy-icebreaker

Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter will be Homeported in Seattle

17 June 2019

US Heavy Ice Breaker Polar Star (WAGB-10). US Coast Guard Photo

The U.S. Coast Guard’s polar icebreaking fleet will remain based in Seattle after delivery of its new class of heavy icebreakers.

The first of a planned fleet of three heavy icebreakers, called Polar Security Cutters, is expected to deliver in 2023. The Coast Guard’s only working heavy icebreaker, USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10), is based in Seattle. The Coast Guard also has one medium icebreaker, USCGC Healy (WAGB-20).

“I am pleased to...

https://news.usni.org/2019/06/17/seattle-to-be-coast-guard-heavy-icebreaker-fleet-homeport

Coast Guard Renames New Icebreaker Program ‘Polar Security Cutter’

27 September 2018

Crew of U.S Coast Guard icebreaker USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) in 2014. US Coast Guard Photo

The U.S. Coast Guard changed the name of its heavy icebreaker program to highlight its importance to national security, as funding for the first-in-class ship may be in jeopardy.

Now dubbed the Polar Security Cutter, Coast Guard leadership and backers on Capitol Hill are determined to secure funding for the planned new class of heavy icebreaker – the first for the Coast Guard in more than four decades – by...

https://news.usni.org/2018/09/27/36846

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