Coast Guard’s largest icebreaker scheduled to visit Seward

Seward, AK – The nation’s largest ice breaker, Coast Guard Cutter Healy, is scheduled to arrive at the Alaska Railroad Freight Dock, Seward, on Wednesday, after concluding the first component of its Arctic West Summer 2010 mission.

Engine troubles sideline Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard announced Friday an unexpected engine casualty aboard Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea, one of the service’s three polar icebreakers, will prohibit the icebreaker from getting underway for its fall 2010 Coast Guard Arctic patrol and will most likely keep the cutter from providing standby capability for Operation Deep Freeze to support the resupply of McMurdo Station,...

Cutter Healy to host open house

HONOLULU– The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy will host a free, open house during their Honolulu Harbor port call May 28 and 29 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Aloha Tower.

Cutter Healy Begins Arctic West Summer 2010 Mission

SEATTLE – The nation’s largest ice breaker, Coast Guard Cutter Healy, departed Pier 36 in Seattle Sunday to begin the Arctic West Summer 2010 (AWS10) mission.

Coast Guard Exercises Option on Dry-Docking and Overhaul Of Cutter Healy

SEATTLE – Todd Shipyards Corporation announced today that the U.S. Coast Guard has awarded to its wholly owned subsidiary, Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation, a $12.5 million modification to previously awarded contract HSCG85-05-C-625306 in support of repairs and alterations performed during the triennial Dry-Docking Planned Maintenance Availability (“DPMA”) of the icebreaker USCGC...

Coast Guard Cutter Healy returning to Seattle

SEATTLE – The nation’s largest ice breaker, Coast Guard Cutter Healy, is scheduled to return to Seattle Thursday, after completing its Arctic West Summer 2009 AWS09 mission.

Coast Guard’s largest icebreaker visits Juneau

JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard Cutter Healy, the nation’s largest icebreaker, will arrive and moor at the Coast Guard pier in Juneau Thursday concluding the crews Arctic West Summer 2009 mission.

Coast Guard Cutter Healy arrives in Kodiak after Arctic Patrol

JUNEAU, Alaska — The nation’s largest ice breaker, the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, is scheduled to arrive and moor at pier #2 in Kodiak Tuesday on its trip back to its homeport of Seattle concluding the Arctic West Summer 2009 mission. The crew of the Healy has spent the past three months underway studying Acrtic Ocean hydrography and mapping the Extended Continental Shelf.

Coast Guard assists international science community to study Arctic ice, ocean behavior in Alaska

NOME, Alaska – The Coast Guard in cooperation with several scientific agencies and the International Ice Patrol deployed an ocean drifting buoy in the Arctic Ocean north of the Bering Sea for the very first time Wednesday.