Multimedia Release: Coast Guard Cutter Healy Returns To Seattle

SEATTLE — Family, friends and shipmates welcome the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy home from a more than 250-day deployment on Feb. 5, 2012. Healy completed its science missions in 2011, before conducting the escort of the tanker vessel Renda on a mission to deliver fuel and prevent a potential energy crisis in Nome, Alaska. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Eric J. Chandler.

SEATTLE — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy waits offshore of Nome, Alaska, as the tanker vessel Renda transfers fuel in Jan., 2012. Healy escorted Renda to Nome to avoid a possible energy crisis in the isolated city. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer Eric J. Chadler.

Seattle - Capt. Beverly A. Havlik, Commanding Officer of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, speaks to members of the press, after she and her crew return home from a more than 250 day deployment on Feb. 5, 2012. Healy completed its normal science missions in 2011, before conducting the escort of the tanker vessel Renda on a mission to deliver fuel and prevent a potential energy crisis in Nome, Alaska. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Eric J. Chandler.

SEATTLE — Coast Guard Cutter Healy, the nation’s largest and only operational Polar ice breaker moored at Coast Guard Base Seattle, Sunday, at 9 a.m., after completing a 254-day deployment.

The Healy completed four Arctic science missions during the 2011 field season, as well as an 800-mile Bering Sea ice-escort of the Russian-flagged tanker vessel Renda to Nome, Alaska for a winter fuel delivery by sea.

Healy embarked on the first-ever domestic icebreaking operation in Alaska. Icebreaking through 800 miles of Bering Sea ice, Healy escorted the Renda to and from Nome, where it safety offloaded 1.3 million gallons of fuel. Without this delivery, the town of Nome would have run out of its winter fuel reserves by March.

For the complete story on the missions conducted by Healy in 2011 and 2012, please click here.

For additional information contact the 13th Coast Guard District Public Affairs office at (206) 220-7237.

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