Polar Star Goes in For a Tuneup - © Andrew C. Williams
USCG Icebreaker Polar Star (Launched 1976) in dry dock on Harbor Island Seattle. (2016)
Polar Star is the only United States heavy icebreaker as of 2024, traveling to both North and South poles for research and/or resupply missions.
In 2020, it traveled the farthest North of any United States government surrface vessel in winter, making it to 72 degrees 11 minutes N.
Polar Star has been deployed 24 times for Operation Deep Freeze, US Coast Guard missions to resupply McMurdo Station in Antarctica.
Polar Star Goes in For a Tuneup - © Andrew C. Williams
USCG Icebreaker Polar Star (Launched 1976) in dry dock on Harbor Island Seattle. (2016)
Polar Star is the only United States heavy icebreaker as of 2024, traveling to both North and South poles for research and/or resupply missions.
In 2020, it traveled the farthest North of any United States government surrface vessel in winter, making it to 72 degrees 11 minutes N.
Polar Star has been deployed 24 times for Operation Deep Freeze, US Coast Guard missions to resupply McMurdo Station in Antarctica.