The Polar Star is the United States’ only heavy icebreaker. The 399-foot heavy polar icebreaker commissioned in 1976, weighing 13,500 tons. It is 84-feet wide with a 34-foot draft.

The U.S. Coast Guard's only heavy icebreaker, the USCGC Polar Star, transits through pack ice in the Southern Ocean, December 2022. (PO3 Aidan Cooney/Coast Guard) Full production of a new polar ...

The Polar Star and its crew departed Seattle on November 15, 2023, traveling over 27,500 miles through various oceans and seas, including the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska, and the Southern Ocean.

The Polar Star crew departed Seattle on Nov. 14, 2022, traveling more than 25,000 miles through the North Pacific, South Pacific, Indian, Southern, and South Atlantic Oceans.

That is, if someone is ready to become the Polar Star’s new owner because the German beauty is now up for grabs. Prior to that, it had been available for charter, for “only” $380,000 per week.

US Coast Guard heavy icebreaker Polar Star is undergoing more recapitalisation work. (US Coast Guard) Having completed a 138-day deployment to Antarctica on 31 March to support Operation ‘Deep ...