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Below is a Coast Guard News release. Note that while Polar Star has returned to the US, she did not return to Seattle, her homeport. Once again Polar Star will spend much of her inport time, prob...

https://chuckhillscgblog.net/2024/04/06/u-s-coast-guard-heavy-icebreaker-returns-to-the-u-s-but-not-to-homeport-following-completion-of-antarctic-mission/

Below is a press release from Seaspan Shipyards regarding a contract awarded for the Canadian Coast Guard’s Multi-Purpose Vessel program. We talked about these ships earlier. I am going to repe...

https://chuckhillscgblog.net/2024/03/27/canadian-coast-guard-multi-purpose-vessel-recapitalization/

The Congressional Research Service has once again updated their look at the Polar Security Cutter (heavy icebreaker) program. (See the latest version here.) I have reproduced the one page summar...

https://chuckhillscgblog.net/2024/03/26/coast-guard-polar-security-cutter-polar-icebreaker-program-background-and-issues-for-congress-updated-march-25-2024-crs/

Current Coast Guard Icebreakers: CCGS Henry Larsen (medium icebreaker, top photo), CCGS Terry Fox (heavy icebreaker, bottom photo) Below are two news releases, first a release by Chantier Davie C...

https://chuckhillscgblog.net/2024/03/26/canadas-new-icebreaker-fleet/

Below is a Pacific Area news release. I followed the link in the editor’s note and there are some great photos and interesting stories, including the fact that while in McMurdo Sound, divers we...

https://chuckhillscgblog.net/2024/02/24/u-s-coast-guard-cutter-polar-star-completes-operation-deep-freeze-2024-mission-departs-antarctica-news-release/

Naval News reports on Coast Guard remarks about the Polar Security Cutter program at the Surface Navy Association annual symposium. There is some good news. The Commandant says she is, “100% c...

https://chuckhillscgblog.net/2024/01/20/uscg-leans-in-towards-first-polar-security-cutter-naval-news/

The Congressional Research Service has once again updated their look at the Polar Security Cutter (heavy icebreaker) program. (See the latest version here.) I have reproduced the one page summar...

https://chuckhillscgblog.net/2023/12/17/coast-guard-polar-security-cutter-polar-icebreaker-program-background-and-issues-for-congress-crs-updated-dec-12-2023/

Below is a news release from Coast Guard news. Nov. 16, 2023 U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star departs Seattle to begin Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica SEATTLE – The U.S. Coast Guard Cutte...

https://chuckhillscgblog.net/2023/11/17/u-s-coast-guard-cutter-polar-star-departs-seattle-to-begin-operation-deep-freeze-in-antarctica-cg-news/

I am just passing along this news release from Coast Guard News. Charleston has become a major base for Coast Guard cutters with five NSCs to be based there. The first of the new icebreakers will...

https://chuckhillscgblog.net/2023/11/02/media-availability-usas-largest-icebreaker-to-visit-charleston-following-arctic-deployment-interviews-available-cg-news/

Total Battle Force Deployed Underway 291 (USS 232, USNS 59) 107 (USS 74, USNS 33) 85 (57 Deployed, 28 Local) The US Naval Institute’s news service’s latest Fleet and Marine Tracker only menti...

https://chuckhillscgblog.net/2023/10/31/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-oct-30-2023-u-s-naval-forces-in-middle-east-interdict-29-million-in-illegal-drugs/