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Multimedia Release: Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star transits to Todd Shipyard for overhaul
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| SEATTLE – Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star take-in mooring lines to start the short trip from Coast Guard Base Seattle at Pier 36 to Todd Shipyard at Harbor Island May 24, 2010. Following Coast Guard Commandant, Adm. Thad Allen, reactivating the Polar Star last March, it will undergo an 18-month dockside and dry-dock overhaul. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Colin White. |
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| SEATTLE – The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star makes the short trip from Coast Guard Base Seattle at Pier 36 to join the Cutter Polar Sea already in dry dock at Todd Shipyard on Harbor Island May 24, 2010. Following Coast Guard Commandant, Adm. Thad Allen, reactivating the Polar Star last March, it will undergo an 18-month dockside and dry-dock overhaul. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Colin White. |
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| SEATTLE – Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star heave mooring lines to line handlers at Todd Shipyard on Harbor Island after the short trip from Coast Guard Base Seattle at Pier 36 May 24, 2010. Following Coast Guard Commandant, Adm. Thad Allen, reactivating the Polar Star last March, it will undergo an 18-month dockside and dry-dock overhaul. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Colin White. |
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| Arctic West, Arctic (June 10, 1996) - Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 11). Since the late 1970s, these 400-foot mammoths of the Coast Guard fleet, based in Seattle, Wash., have been traveling north and south for their primary mission of scientific and logistical support in both Polar Regions. Polar class icebreakers have a variety of missions while operating in polar regions. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Andy Devilbliss. |
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| SEATTLE - The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star transits from Coast Guard Base Seattle to Todd Shipyard for an 18-month overhaul May 24, 2010. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Colin White. |
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| SEATTLE - Adm. Thad W. Allen, Commandant of the Coast Guard, addresses the media aboard the Polar Class Icebreaker Polar Star, homeported here, as Lt. Cmdr. Jack W. Jackson the icebreaker's Commanding Officer observes during the Polar Star's reactivation March 10, 2010. Allen referenced the Coast Guard's role as the nation's principal federal maritime enforcement agency in the Arctic. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Tara Molle. |
SEATTLE - The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, one of the nation's two Polar Class icebreakers transited from the Coast Guard Base Seattle to Todd Shipyard here Monday.
Following the Coast Guard Commandant, Adm. Thad Allen, reactivating the icebreaker last March the Polar Star will now undergo an 18-month dockside and dry dock overhaul.
"The immediate salutary effect in this region will be 250 new jobs and the knowledge that the Coast Guard will be taking a ship that has not been used in a long time and putting it back into service," said Allen.
The Coast Guard is the principal federal maritime enforcement agency in the Arctic with broad safety, security and stewardship missions.The scope of Coast Guard operations in the Arctic is expanding.
The Coast Guard is the only federal agency currently operating surface vessels, two powerful icebreakers, capable of asserting a U.S. sovereign presence in Arctic ice covered waters.
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