Capt. Michele Schallip says if the U.S. Coast Guard’s Healy icebreaker she commands was suddenly homeported in Juneau rather than Seattle she’d be fine with it, but there would be some ...

As new sea passages open up, the commercial and defence possibilities are becoming irresistible. To take advantage, America desperately needs ships ...

While most of the attention is focused on the ancient U.S. fleet of large, showpiece icebreakers—the ancient USCGC Polar Star and the less capable USCGC Healy—the Coast Guard’s ice ...

The Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or ICE Pact, between the United States, Canada and Finland is meant to pool new ship construction.

The US has only two operational icebreakers: heavy icebreaker the Polar Star and medium-duty Healy; Russia has eleven and six more under construction Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski introduced this ...

In June, Kadko and several members of the team had gone to the Healy – then stationed in Seattle – to load much of the equipment and begin setting up the labs aboard the icebreaker. But now in Dutch ...

U.S. Coast Guard members and scientists exit Coast Guard Cutter Healy to walk on the ice for an ice survey north of Barrow, Alaska, on Oct. 2, 2018. (NyxoLyno Cangemi/U.S. Coast Guard) ...