President Elect Donald Trump has wanted a big U.S. icebreaker fleet for years. With the ICE Pact, he can finally get ...

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 ...

(Janes/Michael Fabey) The US Coast Guard (USCG) Cutter Healy (WAGB 20), the service's medium polar icebreaker, returned to Seattle, Washington, on 12 December following a 73-day Arctic deployment ...

Darius Heumann, 5, showed he has no trouble speaking truth to power when a senior officer aboard the U.S. Coast Guard’s Healy icebreaker asked a visiting tour group “how many elephants do you ...

The United States considered making a bid for the North Atlantic island in 1867, when it also purchased Alaska from Russia.

Icebreaker Healy, shown here transiting the Gulf of Alaska in 2022, is slated for life extension work. (Janes/Michael Fabey) The US Coast Guard's (USCG's) efforts to bolster its icebreaking fleets ...

The new Storis' hull number, 21, is the next in line after the medium icebreaker Healy, which has the designation WAGB-20.

The Healy is one of only two Arctic-capable icebreakers in the Coast Guard's fleet. (Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Charly Hengen / U.S. Coast Guard) A House panel this week leveled bipartisan ...

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 ...

and the 27-year-old medium icebreaker Healy. Congress approved $125 million to purchase the only commercially available icebreaker, the 12-year-old Aiviq, which was painted in U.S. Coast Guard ...