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 ...

US officials should consider incorporating US Coast Guard (USCG) icebreakers into US Navy (USN) Freedom of Navigation ...

No,” said Rear Adm. Jeff Garrett, a former captain of the Healy icebreaker. But “is it the ideal resource? No.” To reach the Arctic from Juneau, Garrett noted, the Aiviq will have to ...

newest polar icebreaker, the USCG Michael A. Healy. Under the purchase order from Avondale, Westinghouse will provide four 12-cylinder, 10,600-hp ZA40S medium-speed engines. The company is working ...

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

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 ...

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) ...