The 420' medium icebreaker Healy, built in 1997, is one of two remaining ice cutters in the Coast Guard's Arctic force. Coast ...

Even as global temperatures warm and open up shipping lanes, the region remains largely impenetrable for ships in all but one or two summer months—unless accompanied by a Polar class icebreaker.

The Polar Class 2 icebreaker will help sustain a 12-month presence in Canada’s North in support of Canada’s Arctic sovereignty, high-Arctic science (including climate change research ...

Construction officially started on one of two new heavy polar icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG), marking the first time in over 60 years that such a vessel has been built in Canada, says ...

The Polar Sea, one of the U.S. Coast Guard's two Polar class icebreakers, on its way to the North Pole and accompanied by the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St. Laurent, lost one of the starboard ...

The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star completes ice drills in the Arctic in 2013.(Petty Officer 3rd Class Rachel French/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout via Reuters) Cutting boards and icebreakers ...

Seaspan said the vessel, when commissioned, would be “one of the most advanced conventional polar icebreakers ever to be built”. The Polar Class 2 vessel will be 158m long and 28m wide, and has been ...

Seaspan Shipyards cut steel on the Canadian Coast Guard’s new heavy polar icebreaker, signifying the start of construction on ...