The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Storis is shown here transitioning from the Bollinger Mississippi Shipyard to the city fuel pier on June 1, 2025. The Storis is the Coast Guard’s first new polar ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - The U.S. Coast Guard’s newest polar icebreaker is officially operational, which the agency says will bolster its Arctic operations. The 360-foot-long icebreaker departed from ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Storis is shown here underway, June 3, 2025, from Pascagoula, ... and previously commanded the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star from July 2022 to July 2024.

Additionally, the service operates only two aging icebreakers — the 27-year-old medium icebreaker USCGC Healy and the 49-year-old heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star. The Coast Guard’s other ...

The U.S. Coast Guard's only heavy icebreaker, the USCGC Polar Star, transits through pack ice in the Southern Ocean, December 2022. (PO3 Aidan Cooney/Coast Guard) Full production of a new polar ...

The United States' first polar icebreaker acquired for the Coast Guard in more than 25 years has begun its maiden voyage, as it prepares to safeguard America's interests in the Arctic.

At that time, CBO estimated that building all three new Polar Security Cutters on the Coast Guard wishlist would cost $5.1 billion in 2024 dollars, roughly 60% more than the Coast Guard had estimated.

The Department of Homeland Security approved full production of the first U.S. Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (PSC), April 30, 2025. Saturday, June 14, 2025 🔍 ...