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Icebreakers are highly specialized ships with the ability not just to sail the seven seas, but also to crash through the ice on frozen oceans. Taking to ice-laden water has always been fraught with ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has issued two parallel Requests for Information targeting a comprehensive modernization of its aging ...

The icebreaker Aiviq is a gas guzzler with a troubled history. The ship was built to operate in the Arctic, but it has a type of propulsion system susceptible to failure in ice. Its waste and ...

The U.S. Coast Guard held an event at their base in Seattle for the Polar fleet that was all docked together in a rare event.

USCG Commandant Karl Schultz speaks at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on June 1, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Patrick Kelley) Coast Guard Commandant Adm.

The U.S. Coast Guard is sending an icebreaking ship in an effort to free two vessels stuck in the Antarctic’s frozen waters. The Cutter Polar Star was sent to the Antarctic region to help the Russian ...