Coast Guard Exercises Option on Overhaul of USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11)
SEATTLE – Todd Shipyards Corporation (NYSE:TOD) announced today that the U.S. Coast Guard has awarded to its wholly owned subsidiary, Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation (“Todd Pacific”), a $6,340,256 modification to previously awarded contract HSCG85-04-C-625509 in support of repairs and alterations performed during the Planned Maintenance Availability (“PMA”) of the icebreaker...
Coast Guard Cutter Healy returns to Seattle from Arctic deployment
SEATTLE — The nation’s largest icebreaker, the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, will return to its homeport here Saturday after two months in the Bering Sea for its first Arctic West Summer 2008 Deployment.
During the deployment, the icebreaker traveled more than 8,000 nautical miles and conducted more than over 1,100 individual science evolutions in the course of completing two separate science...
Coast Guard Icebreaker Returns From Mission with Canadian Coast Guard
NEW YORK- The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Penobscot Bay will return to Bayonne, N.J. Tuesday, Apr. 15, after conducting joint ice-breaking missions on the St. Lawrence Seaway with the Canadian Coast Guard since Mar. 5.
“The Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway saw their worst ice season in over a decade,” said Lt. j.g. Jamie Collins, the Executive Officer of the Cutter Penobscot Bay. “On...
Great Lakes Ice Season Second Toughest in Over a Decade
CLEVELAND – Ninth Coast Guard District cutters continue to break ice and maintain navigable waterways during the second toughest ice season on the Great Lakes in 11 years.
The Ninth Coast Guard District, responsible for the U.S. Great Lakes basin and St. Lawrence Seaway, employs eight multi-mission cutters to break ice in the region. The Canadian Coast Guard is an integral partner in the operations...
Coast Guard Begins Ice breaking on Kennebeck River
The Pentagon Channel reports on the Coast Guards annual ice breaking operations on Maine’s Kennebec River. There is between 10 and 18 inches of ice on the River.
Spring Means Great Lakes Ice Breaking on Lake Superior-Video
The Pentagon Channel reports on an annual rite of Spring, the Coast Guard breaking ice on Lake Superior.
Coast Guard Breaks Ice in Cleveland Harbor
CLEVELAND – The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay (WTGB-102) departed from here, this morning, and traveled east to Fairport, Ohio, to assess ice conditions at Fairport Harbor and the Grand River.
The 140-foot cutter, based in Detroit, is making this assessment at the request of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A member of the ACOE is on board.
Bristol Bay started the morning breaking up...
Coast Guard to begin ice breaking on the Kennebec River
PORTLAND, ME – The U.S. Coast Guard Cutters SHACKLE, BRIDLE, and TACKLE will begin breaking ice on the Kennebec River on March 17, 2008. The cutters will break ice from the Carlton Bridge in Bath, ME and clear the river as far north as the Richmond Dresden Bridge by the 24th.
The Coast Guard strongly urges ice fishermen, snowmobile riders, and any motorized vehicles on the Kennebec River to...
Coast Guard Commences Duluth Ice Breaking Operations
DULUTH, Minn. – The Coast Guard Cutter Alder will commence ice breaking operations in Duluth/ Superior Harbor March 11, 2008.
Ice fisherman, motor vehicle operators and others who use the ice should be aware that ice in the vicinity of the main shipping channels within the harbor will be broken and impassable once icebreaking has commenced. Attempting to approach or cross over areas of ice broken...
