Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, WA
Commissioned
23 February 1977
Identification
IMO number: 7391252
Motto
Always Summer, Never Warm
Nickname(s)
Building 11, Polar Roller, What a Great Boat, Wandering Arctic Garbage Barge, Red Tubs of Fun, We Always Go Bye-Bye[1]
Status
Out of service since 2010[2]
General characteristics [3]
Class and type
Polar-class icebreaker - Heavy
Displacement
10,863 long tons (11,037 t) (standard)
13,623 long tons (13,842 t) (full)
Length
399 ft (122 m)
Beam
83 ft 6 in (25.45 m)
Draft
31 ft (9.4 m)[4]
Installed power
Six Alco 16V-251F diesel engines (6×3,000hp)
Three Pratt & Whitney FT-4A12 gas turbines (3×25,000 hp)
Propulsion
Combined diesel-electric or gas (CODLOG)
Three shafts; controllable-pitch propellers
Speed
18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) in 6-foot (1.8 m) ice
Range
16,000 nautical miles (30,000 km; 18,000 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
28,275 nautical miles (52,365 km; 32,538 mi) at 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement
15 officers
127 enlisted
33 scientists
12-person helicopter detachment
Aircraft carried
2 HH-65C Dolphin helicopters
USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) is a United States Coast Guard heavy icebreaker. Commissioned on 23 February 1977, the ship was built by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle along with her sister ship, Polar Star (WAGB-10). Her home port is Seattle, Washington.
Polar Sea has been out of service as of 2010[update] due to failure of five of her six Alco main diesel engines.
^U.S. Department of Homeland Security. United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Cutternicknames.pdf Archived 2011-08-25 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2012-01-15.
^Reprieve for Seattle-based icebreaker Polar Sea Archived 2012-07-19 at the Wayback Machine. Seattle Times, 15 June 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
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the same propulsion power. On 22 August 1994 Louis S. St-Laurent and USCGCPolarSea became the first North American surface vessels to reach the North...
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an availability gap caused by USCG's deactivation of the icebreaker USCGCPolarSea. USCG repeatedly turned down Hunter's continued proposals, citing the...
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over the legal status of the Northwest Passage came to a head after USCGCPolarSea transited the passage in what were asserted by Canada to be Canadian...
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