
USCG Heavy Icebreaker Polar Star Returns Home After 128-day Deployment
The only heavy icebreaker in the U.S. Coast Guard fleet USCG Polar Star arrived back in San Francisco completing her annual deployment to Antarctica and now she is preparing for the final phase of her ongoing life extension. Commissioned in 1976, the USCG needs to keep her operation until at least 2030 when the much-delayed next-generation heavy icebreaker is anticipated to be delivered. Polar Star departed Seattle bound for Antarctica on November 22, 2024. She traveled over 25,000...
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