The need for construction of specialized ships to clear the path in the ice appeared in the mid-18th century. The first icebreaker was a wheeled steamer that cleared ice in the harbor of Philadelphia.

One of Moscow's nuclear icebreakers has sustained significant damage after colliding with a cargo ship in the Kara Sea.

A Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker damaged in a collision five days ago in Arctic waters will be repaired during normal ...

President Donald Trump is continuing his first-term focus on building a big, new American icebreaker fleet. Days after his ...

Russian officials have stressed there is no threat to the nuclear reactor installation and life support systems on the icebreaker. Initial reports failed to explain the drama, as shown in the ...

Bloodied by the war in Ukraine and weighed down by a shipbuilding industry that never really recovered from its post-Cold War ...