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

Seaspan Shipyards cut steel on the Canadian Coast Guard’s new heavy polar icebreaker, signifying the start of construction on ...

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 ...

For example, the U.S. Coast Guard has not launched a new heavy icebreaker ... getting America's ship count up quickly.

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 ...

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 ...

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

the old icebreaker had served the Canadian Coast Guard under the name Norman McLeod Rogers before joining the Chilean Navy. The new Viel ship will arguably be the largest icebreaker operating in ...

The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, a heavy icebreaker homeported in Seattle, breaks ice near the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station, Antarctica, Jan. 13, 2015. (George Degener/Coast Guard) ...