The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, the only U.S. heavy icebreaker, played its role in Operation Deep Freeze 2025 and has departed the Antarctic region last week after 65 days south of the ...

Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB-10) and crew departed Seattle on Friday, beginning their monthslong deployment to Antarctica in support of Operation Deep Freeze, an annual joint military ...

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10) and crew departed the Antarctic region Tuesday after 65 days south of the Antarctic… Wednesday, June 25, 2025.

The Coast Guard’s proposed FY2024 budget requested $125.0 million in procurement funding for the purchase of an existing commercially available polar icebreaker (CAPI) that would be modified to ...

Work on the Coast Guard’s first Polar Security Cutter is starting this year, the first of three scheduled to be built so far, but won’t be ready until 2030, according to a recent Congressional ...

The Coast Guard’s new commercial icebreaker is enroute to the West Coast ahead of its August commissioning in Alaska, marking a milestone in the effort to rebuild U.S. defenses in the Arctic Region.

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 Coast Guard gets its first new polar icebreaker in more than 25 years.The Coast Guard has accepted its first new polar icebreaker in more than 25 years, but it’s not really new. The 12,900 ...

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 ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) - The U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy received approval for the construction of the first Polar Security Cutter. It will be built at Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding ...

The Coast Guard has only two active icebreakers, and the other ship — the Polar Star — is committed to the Antarctic, where it maintains the sea lanes that supply American research stations in ...

Work on the Coast Guard’s first Polar Security Cutter is starting this year, the first of three scheduled to be built so far, but won’t be ready until 2030, according to a recent Congressional ...