President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill earmarks more than $8.6 billion to increase the U.S. Coast Guard ...

The need for construction of specialized ships to clear the path in the ice appeared in the mid-18th century. The first ...

The President has repeatedly called for the United States to beef up its icebreaker fleet to enhance national security in the ...

For years, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have complained about the U.S. falling behind Russia and China in the Arctic.

The as-yet unnamed icebreaker - the first of the LK-60 model to be built - will be 173 metres long and 34 metres wide, some 14 metres longer and 4 meters wider than the current biggest icebreaker, the ...

As the largest icebreaker in the United States, the research vessel can crash through sea ice 4.5 feet thick with ease and continue operating in -50 degrees Fahrenheit — abilities that have ...

Finally, we can have a look at the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Healy, the most technologically advanced and largest American icebreaker. Designed as a research platform, it has 4,200 feet of lab space ...

The US Coast Guard's largest ship — the icebreaker Healy — reached the North Pole on September 30 on what was only the second unaccompanied trip there by a US ship.

Mich., is calling on the U.S. Senate to reinclude funding for a new Great Lakes heavy icebreaker in its reconciliation bill ...