Construction officially started on one of two new heavy polar icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG), marking the ...

Eilís Quinn is an award-winning journalist and manages Radio Canada International’s Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project. Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight ...

Seaspan Shipyards has cut steel on the Canadian Coast Guard’s (CCG) new heavy polar icebreaker, marking the first time a heavy ...

Icebreaking Superintendent for the Canadian Coast Guard's Central Region said Tuesday morning from his base in Montreal. The ship is the medium icebreaker Pierre Radisson, launched in 1977 and ...

For example, the U.S. Coast Guard has not launched a new heavy icebreaker ... getting America's ship count up quickly. Regardless of the bills' prospects for adoption, Canada's Seaspan is already ...

On April 16, 1945, just three weeks before the end of the European Theatre of the Second World War, a German U-boat sank His ...

In December, Seaspan launched the joint supply ship HCMCS Protecteur, the longest naval ship ever built in Canada. The icebreaker will be almost as big as the joint support ships, but 5,000 tonnes ...

“It really depends where America puts its priority – if it’s on schedule, then Finland is probably the right answer. If they ...

Seaspan Shipyards begins construction of Canadian Coast Guard’s new polar icebreaker. Find the latest news from the maritime ...