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An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters. Although the term usually refers to icebreaking ships, it may also refer to smaller vessels ....
s, ships designed to operate in ice-covered waters.








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Icebreaker

An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters. Although the term usually refers to icebreaking ships, it may also refer to smaller vessels ....
s, ships designed to operate in ice-covered waters.

Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
 

Argentine Navy
Argentine Navy

The Navy of the Argentine Republic or Armada of the Argentine Republic is the navy of Argentina. It is one of the three branches of the Argentine Armed Forces, together with the Argentine Army and the Argentine Air Force....
  • ARA Almirante Irízar (Q-5)
    ARA Almirante Irízar (Q-5)

    The ARA Almirante Ir?zar is a large icebreaker of the Argentine Navy currently out of service due a 2007 incident. Background ...
  • ARA General San Martín (Q-4)


Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 

  • Aurora Australis
    Aurora Australis (icebreaker)

    The Aurora Australis is an icebreaker under the command of the Australian Antarctic Division . Designed as a multi-purpose research and resupply ship, it was built by Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and launched in September 1989....


Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 


Canadian Coast Guard
Canadian Coast Guard

The Canadian Coast Guard is the coast guard of Canada.It is the civilian federal agency responsible for providing maritime search and rescue on its national portion of international waters such as the Great Lakes and St....
 

Heavy Icebreaker
  • CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent
    CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent

    CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent is a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker.Named after the twelfth Prime Minister of Canada, Louis St. Laurent, the vessel is classed a "Heavy Arctic Icebreaker" and is the largest icebreaker and flagship of the CCG....
  • CCGS Terry Fox
    CCGS Terry Fox

    CCGS Terry Fox is a Canadian Coast Guard Heavy Gulf icebreaker.Named after the late cancer research activist Terry Fox, the vessel was built in 1983 as MV Terry Fox by Burrard Dry Dock in Vancouver, British Columbia....
  • CCGS John A. Macdonald
    CCGS John A. Macdonald

    CCGS John A. Macdonald was a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker.She was commissioned into the Department of Transport 's Marine Service in 1960 using the prefix "Canadian Government Ship"....
     (Decommissioned 1991 and scrapped 1994)
  • CCGS D'Iberville
    CCGS D'Iberville

    CCGS D'Iberville was a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker.Commissioned as the CGS D'Iberville for the Department of Transport 's Marine Service, using the prefix "Canadian Government Ship", the D'Iberville was transferred into the newly-created Canadian Coast Guard in 1962....
     (Decommissioned and scrapped)
  • CCGS N.B. McLean
    CCGS N.B. McLean

    CCGS N.B. McLean was a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker.Constructed in 1930 at Halifax Shipyards, she was commissioned as CGS N.B. MacLean and served in the Department of Transport 's Marine Service, using the prefix "Canadian Government Ship"....
     (Decommissioned and scrapped)


Icebreaker
  • CCGS Alexander Henry
    CCGS Alexander Henry

    CCGS Alexander Henry is a former Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker and currently a museum ship preserved at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston, Ontario, Ontario....
     (decommissioned)
  • CCGS Amundsen
    CCGS Amundsen

    CCGS Amundsen is an icebreaker and research vessel operated by the Canadian Coast Guard....
     (ex. CCGS Sir John Franklin)
  • CCGS Des Groseilliers
    CCGS Des Groseilliers

    The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Des Groseilliers is an icebreaker in the Canadian Coast Guard.The vessel is named after Medard Chouart Des Groseilliers a close associate of Pierre-Esprit Radisson in explorations west of the Great Lakes and the founding of the English Hudson's Bay Company....
  • CCGS Henry Larsen
    CCGS Henry Larsen

    CCGS Henry Larsen is a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker based in St John's, Newfoundland.A "Medium Gulf/River icebreaker", the vessel is named after Henry Larsen, the commander of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police patrol vessel St....
  • CCGS Labrador
    CCGS Labrador

    CCGS Labrador was a Wind class icebreaker icebreaker. First commissioned on July 8 1954 as HMCS Labrador under the auspices of the Royal Canadian Navy, she was transferred to the Department of Transport on November 22 1957....
     (decommissioned)
  • CCGS Pierre Radisson
  • CCGS Sir John Franklin (now CCGS Amundsen)
  • CCGS Ernest Lapointe (Decommissioned, now museum ship)
  • CGS Mikula (Long ago decommissioned)
  • CGS Northern Light (Decommissioned and sold, long ago)
  • CCGS Saurel (Decommissioned)
  • Robert Lemeur (decommissioned)


Light Icebreaker
  • CCGS Samuel Risley
    CCGS Samuel Risley

    The CCGS Samuel Risley is a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker and buoy tender.Named after the 19th century maritime inspector, she is a light icebreaker with a capability to break ice up to two feet thick....
  • CCGS Ann Harvey
    CCGS Ann Harvey

    The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Ann Harvey was constructed in the year 1987 by Halifax Dartmouth Industries, in Halifax Nova Scotia.The vessel was named after the daughter of a local Newfoundland fisherman from Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland and Labrador on Newfoundland's southwest coast....
     (St. John's, NL)
  • CCGS Edward Cornwallis (Dartmouth, NS)
  • CCGS George R. Pearkes
  • CCGS Griffon
  • CCGS J.E. Bernier (Decommissioned)
  • CCGS Martha L. Black (St. John's, NL)
  • CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier
    CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier

    The CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier is a light icebreaker and Major Navaids Tender of the Canadian Coast Guard. Built in 1986 by Canadian Shipbuilding, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada the ship currently is based out of Victoria, British Columbia....
  • CCGS Sir William Alexander
    CCGS Sir William Alexander

    CCGS Sir William Alexander is a Canadian Coast Guard Ship and is classed a "Light Icebreaker - Major Navaids Tender". She is currently assigned to CCG Maritimes Region and is homeported at CCG Base Dartmouth, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia....
     (Dartmouth)
  • CCGS Earl Grey (Charlottetown, PEI)
  • CCGS Bartlett
    CCGS Bartlett

    CCGS Bartlett is a Marine Service Vessel operated by the Canadian Coast Guard.CCGS Bartlett was built in 1969 at Marine Industries, Sorel, Quebec....
     (Decommissioned)
  • CCGS Provo Wallis
  • CCGS Simcoe
    CCGS Simcoe

    The CCGS Simcoe, built in 1962, was the oldest operational vessel in the Canadian Coast Guard and the last ship of the original official Coast Guard fleet, created in 1962....
     (Built 1962)
  • CCGS Tracy
  • CCGS Cygnus
    CCGS Cygnus

    The CCGS Cygnus is a high endurance all weather, offshore ice strengthened multi patrol vessel of the Canadian Coast Guard. It was built in 1982 and underwent a modernization in 1996....
  • CCGS Leonard J. Cowley
    CCGS Leonard J. Cowley

    The CCGS Leonard J. Cowley is a high endurance all weather, offshore ice strengthened multi patrol vessel of the Canadian Coast Guard. It was built in 1984 and underwent a modernization in 1996....
  • CCGS Sir Wilfred Grenfell
    CCGS Sir Wilfred Grenfell

    CCGS Sir Wilfred Grenfell is a Canadian Coast Guard vessel based in St. John's, Newfoundland.An Offshore Ice Strength Multi Patrol Vessel, the vessel, is named after the medical missionary in Labrador, Sir Wilfred Grenfell....


Marine Atlantic
Marine Atlantic

Marine Atlantic Inc. is an independent Canada Crown corporation offering ferry services between the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia....
 
  • MV Caribou
    MV Caribou

    The Merchant vessel Caribou is a Marine Atlantic passenger/vehicle ferry which operates between the islands of Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island in eastern Canada....
     (Gulfspan ferry)
  • MV Joseph and Clara Smallwood
    MV Joseph and Clara Smallwood

    MV Joseph and Clara Smallwood is a Marine Atlantic passenger/vehicle ferry which operates between Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island in eastern Canada....
     (Gulfspan ferry)
  • MV Leif Ericson
    MV Leif Ericson

    The ship prefix Leif Ericson is a Canada Ice breaker passenger-vehicle ferry operated by Marine Atlantic....


Ontario Power Generation
Ontario Power Generation

Ontario Power Generation is a public company wholly owned by the Government of Ontario.OPG is responsible for approximately 70% of the electricity generation in the Province of Ontario, Canada ....
 
  • Niagara Queen II
    Niagara Queen II

    The Niagara Queen II is a small icebreaker that Ontario Power Generation uses to keep the inlet ports open at their plant on the Niagara River at Niagara Falls. The vessel displaces just 85 tonnes....


The Fednav Group
  • MV Arctic


Voisey's Bay Nickel Company
  • Umiak I
    Umiak I

    The Umiak I is a purpose-built ice-strengthened bulk carrier constructed for the Voisey's Bay Nickel Company....


Other
  • Arctic Kalvik
  • MV Polar Star
  • William Lyon Mackenzie (fireboat)
    William Lyon Mackenzie (fireboat)

    William Lyon Mackenzie # 334, named for Toronto's first mayor William Lyon Mackenzie, is a fireboat for the Toronto Fire Services. It was built in 1964 to provide marine fire fighting as well as icebreaker capabilities....
     - Toronto Fire Services
    Toronto Fire Services

    The Toronto Fire Services is part of the Emergency Services that respond to 9-1-1 in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada....


China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 

  • MV Xue Long


Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
 

  • Achiles
  • Contraalmirante Oscar Viel Toro


Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
 


  • HDMS Gunnar Thorson
    HDMS Gunnar Thorson (A560)

    The HDMS Gunnar Thorson is a Denmark environmental protection vessel built for environmental protection and preservation purposes in 1980-1981. Originally operated by the Danish Ministry of Environmental Protection ...
  • Icebraker A551 Danbjørn
  • Icebraker A552 Isbjørn
  • Icebraker A553 Thorbjørn


Ecuador
Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
 

  • Buque Orion, Instituto Oceanografico de la Armada del Ecuador


Estonia
Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
 

  • Suur Tõll Steamer-icebreaker, Built in 1914 in Stettin (Szczecin) by Vulkan-Werke A. G.


Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
 


Finnish Maritime Administration
  • MS Fennica
    MS Fennica

    The MS Fennica and her sistership the MS Nordica are Finland icebreakers. They are multi purpose vessels, intended to operate in the offshore industry outside ice season....
  • MS Nordica
  • MS Botnica
  • MS Kontio
  • MS Otso
  • MS Urho
  • MS Sisu
  • MS Voima


Commercial
  • MV Sampo
  • MT Tempera
    MT Tempera

    The MT Tempera is an ocean-going icebreaker that was finished in 2002.Using Azipod technology, the MT Tempera and its sister ship the MT Mastera are known as double acting tankers....
     and MT Mastera
    MT Mastera

    The MT Mastera and its sister ship the MT Tempera are icebreakers known as double acting tankers. They use Azipod azimuth thruster technology....


Maritime Museum of Finland
  • MS Tarmo
    Tarmo (icebreaker 1907)

    The Tarmo is an icebreaker that served Finland for many decades.The Tarmo was built in 1907. She was armed and served in World War II. She is currently moored at a nautical museum in Kotka, Finland....
     in Kotka
    Kotka

    Kotka is a cities of Finland and municipalities of Finland of Finland.It is located in the provinces of Finland of Southern Finland and is part of the Kymenlaakso regions of Finland....


France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 

  • Astrolabe
    French icebreaker Astrolabe

    The icebreaker Astrolabe is a France research vessel.Among its duties are bring personnel and supplies to the Dumont d'Urville research station in Antarctica....


Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 

  • Polarstern
    PFS Polarstern

    RV Polarstern is a Germany research icebreaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven. The Polarstern was commissioned in 1982 and is mainly used for research in the Arctic and Antarctica....
  • Stettin
    Stettin (icebreaker)

    Stettin is a steam icebreaker built by the shipyard Stettiner Oderwerke in 1933. She was ordered by the Chamber of Commerce of Stettin . The economy of the city of Stettin strongly depended on the free access of ships to and from the Baltic Sea....
  • Eisvogel class icebreaker
    Eisvogel class icebreaker

    The Type 721 Eisvogel class icebreakers is a two ship class built for the German Navy by the Hitzler Werft shipyard of Lauenburg/Elbe. One of the icebreakers is still in service....
     - German Navy
    German Navy

    The German Navy The German Navy traces its roots back to the Imperial Fleet of the Revolutions of 1848 and more directly to the Prussian Navy, which later evolved into the Northern German Federal Navy and became the Imperial Navy ....


International

  • Greenpeace
    Greenpeace

    Greenpeace is an international non-governmental organization for the protection and conservation of the environment. Greenpeace utilizes direct action, lobbying and research to achieve its goals....
    • MV Arctic Sunrise
      MV Arctic Sunrise

      The ship prefix Arctic Sunrise is an icebreaker operated by Greenpeace.The vessel was built in 1975. It has a gross tonnage of 949 tonnes, a length of 50 m and a maximum speed of ....


Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 


Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

The , or JMSDF, is the maritime branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, tasked with the naval defense of Japan. It was formed following the dissolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy after World War II....
 
  • Shirase
    Shirase (icebreaker)

    Shirase is a large Japanese icebreaker operated by the Japan Maritime Self Defence Force. Her hull number is AGB-5002.Shirase was commissioned in 1982 for the Antarctic expedition, replacing its predecessor Fuji ....
  • Soya
    Soya (icebreaker)

    The is a Japanese museum ship that previously served as an icebreaker and patrol boat, and was the first Japanese ship to take part in an Antarctic research expedition....
  • Fuji


Japan Coast Guard
Japan Coast Guard

The , known until 2000 as the Maritime Safety Agency, is the Japanese Coast Guard. Comprising about 12,000 personnel, it is under the oversight of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport , and is responsible for protecting the coast lines of Japan....
 
  • Soya
  • Teshio


Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
 

  • KV Svalbard icebreaker and coast guard vessel


Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 

Nsf Picture of Yamal

Nuclear powered
Nuclear powered icebreaker

A nuclear powered icebreaker is a purpose-built ship for use in waters continuously covered with ice. Icebreakers are ships capable of cruising on ice-covered water by breaking through the ice with their strong, heavy, steel bows....
 
  • NS 50 Let Pobedy
    NS 50 Years Since Victory

    Nuclear Ship 50 Years Since Victory Day or 50 Years Anniversary of Victory is a Russian Arktika class icebreaker nuclear powered icebreaker, the largest in the world as of 2007....
     (50 Years Since Victory)
  • Arktika
    Arktika (icebreaker)

    The Nuclear Ship Arktika is a nuclear powered icebreaker of the Soviet Union Arktika class icebreaker class. In service since 1975, she was the first surface ship to reach the North Pole, on August 17, 1977....
  • Lenin
  • Taimyr
    Taymyr (nuclear icebreaker)

    Taymyr is a shallow-draft nuclear powered icebreaker, and the first of four similar vessels. She was built in 1989 for the Soviet Union in Helsinki, at the Finnish shipyard Wartsila, by order of the Murmansk Shipping Co....
  • Vaigach
    Vaygach (nuclear icebreaker)

    The Vaygach is a shallow-draft nuclear powered icebreaker. She was built in 1989 for the Soviet Union in Helsinki, at the Finnish shipyard Wartsila, by order of the Murmansk Shipping Co....
  • Yamal
    Yamal (icebreaker)

    The NS Yamal is a Russian Arktika class icebreaker nuclear powered icebreaker operated by the Murmansk Shipping Company. It is named after the Yamal Peninsula in Northwest Siberia; the name means End of the Land in the Nenets language....


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Non-nuclear
  • Dikson
  • Kapitan Dranitsyn
    Kapitan Dranitsyn (icebreaker)

    The Kapitan Dranitsyn is a Russian icebreaker, built in Finland for the former Soviet Union. Since October 1995 she has been used as a research vessel by AARI....
  • Vladimir Ignatyuk
    Icebreaker Vladimir Ignatyuk

    Icebreaker Vladimir Ignatyuk was built in 1982 at the Victoria Yard of the Burrard Yarrows Corporation located in Victoria ,British Columbia, Canada for Beaudril for use in Anchor Handling and Icebreaking in the Beaufort Sea ....
  • Kapitan Khlebnikov
    Kapitan Khlebnikov (icebreaker)

    The Kapitan Khlebnikov is a Russian icebreaker. The vessel now operates as a cruise ship offering excursions to the Arctic and Antarctic....
  • Krasin
    Krasin (icebreaker)

    The Krasin is a Russian icebreaker. The vessel operates in polar regions....
  • Saint Alexander Nevsky
  • Talagi(ex-Canmar Kigoriak of Canada)
  • Yermak
    Icebreaker Yermak

    Yermak was a Russian and Soviet Union icebreaker, often referred to as the world's first true icebreaker, with a strengthened hull shaped to ride over and crush pack ice....
  • Magadan
    Icebreaker Magadan

    The Icebreaker Magadan is a large modern Russian icebreaker.She was completed in 1982and is the smallest of Fesco Transport Group's fleet of five icebreakers....
  • Sakhalin
    Icebreaker Sakhalin

    The Icebreaker Sakhalin is a large modern Russian icebreaker built for the Far Eastern Shipping Company Transport Group .The Sakhalin was launched in 2005, and is both steered and propelled by azipods -- which can be rotated to direct their thrust in any direction....
  • Akademik Fyodorov
    Akademik Fyodorov

    The research vessel Akademik Fyodorov is a Russian scientific diesel-electric research vessel, the flagship of the Russian polar research fleet....
  • Ivan Susanin class icebreaker
    Ivan Susanin class icebreaker

    The Ivan Susanin class are a group of icebreaker Patrol ships operated by the Border Guard Service of Russia. The Soviet designation is Project 97P....
     - armed patrol vessels operated by the Russian Maritime Border Guard


South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
 

  • SA Agulhas
    SA Agulhas

    The SA Agulhas is an icebreaker. She was built in 1977, by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Shimonoseki, Japan. The SA Agulhas is South Africa's polar research vessel....


Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 


Swedish Maritime Administration
Swedish Maritime Administration

The Swedish Maritime Administration is a Sweden government agency which provides services to the transport sector by keeping the sea lanes open and safe....
 
  • Atle I (formerly known as Statsisbrytaren)
  • Ymer I
  • Thule
  • Oden I
  • Tor
  • Njord
  • Ale
  • Atle II
    Atle (icebreaker)

    The Atle was the first to be delivered from the Aker Finnyards. After sea trials in mid-1974 she was delivered on 21 October. She was then crewed by personnel from the Swedish Navy and on 24 October she set sail for Stockholm....
  • Frej
    Frej (icebreaker)

    The Frej is the third , named after the Norse god Freyr. She was launched during late in 1974, and on 30 September 1975 she was delivered to the Swedish Navy and departed the Aker Finnyards bound for Stockholm....
  • Ymer II
    Ymer (icebreaker)

    The Ymer is the fifth and last icebreaker in the . She was launched in late 1976, and on 25 October 1977 she was delivered to the Swedish Navy and departed the Aker Finnyards bound for Stockholm, where she arrived on 3 November....
  • Oden II
    Oden (icebreaker)

    The Oden is a large Sweden icebreaker, built in 1988 for the Swedish Maritime Administration. It is named after the Norse god Odin.The Oden has participated in scientific expeditions in the Canada arctic archipelago....


Comercially owned
  • Tor Viking
  • Vidar Viking
    Vidar Viking

    The Vidar Viking is a icebreaker and Anchor handling tug.She is owned and operated by a Norway company, but she is registered in Sweden.She has two sister ships, the Tor Viking and the Balder Viking....
  • Balder Viking


United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 

  • HMS Endurance
    HMS Endurance (A171)

    HMS Endurance is the Royal Navy's Southern Ocean ice patrol ship. She is a class 1A1 icebreaker, with pennant number A171.She was originally built in Norway in 1990 by Ulstein Hatlo for GC Rieber Shipping as MV Polar Circle....
  • RRS Ernest Shackleton
    RRS Ernest Shackleton

    RRS Ernest Shackleton is a Royal Research Ship operated by the British Antarctic Survey. She is primarily a logistics ship used for the resupply of scientific stations in the Antarctica....
  • RRS James Clark Ross
    RRS James Clark Ross

    The Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross is a British Antarctic Survey supply and research ship, named after the English explorer James Clark Ross....


United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 


National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering....
 
  • Laurence M. Gould
    Research Vessel Laurence M. Gould

    The Research Vessel Laurence M. Gould is an icebreaker used by researchers from the United States' National Science Foundation.The vessel is named after Laurence McKinley Gould a widely recognized American scientist, who had explored both the Arctic and Antarctic, who passed away shortly before the vessel was launched....
  • Nathaniel B. Palmer
    Nathaniel B. Palmer (icebreaker)

    The Nathaniel B. Palmer is an icebreaker research ship in the service of the United States National Science Foundation. It is tasked with extended scientific missions in the Antarctic....

New York Power Authority
  • William H. Latham
    William H. Latham (icebreaker)

    The William H. Latham is a 77 ton icebreaker owned and operated by the New York Power Authority on the Niagara River.Her mission is to keep the Power Authority's inlet ports clear of ice....


United States Coast Guard
United States Coast Guard

The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the Military of the United States and one of seven Uniformed services of the United States. In addition to being a military branch at all times, it is unique among the armed forces in that it is also a Admiralty law agency and a Federal government of the United States regulatory agency....
 

Heavy Icebreaker
  • USCGC Healy (WAGB-20)
    USCGC Healy (WAGB-20)

    USCGC Healy is a research icebreaker put into commission in 1999 by the United States Coast Guard. She was constructed by Avondale Industries in New Orleans, Louisiana and named in honor of Captain "Hell Roaring" Michael A....
  • USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10)
  • USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11)


Icebreaker
  • USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83)
    USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83)

    USCGC Mackinaw was a vessel specifically designed for ice breaking duties on the Great Lakes.Mackinaws design was based on the "Wind" class of Coast Guard icebreakers, but the cutter was built wider and longer than the other Wind class vessels so that her draft would be shallower....
     (Decommissioned and museum ship 2006)
  • USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30)
    USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30)

    USCGC Mackinaw is a vessel built as a heavy icebreaker for operations on the North American Great Lakes for the United States Coast Guard....
     (Commissioned 2006)
  • USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278)
    USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278)

    USCGC Staten Island was a United States Coast Guard Wind class icebreaker icebreaker. The Staten Island is actually the original Northwind; the original Northwind was transferred to the Soviet Union under the Lend Lease program in 1944 almost immediately after being commissioned....
  • USCGC Eastwind (WAGB-279)
    USCGC Eastwind (WAGB-279)

    USCGC Eastwind was a United States Coast Guard Wind class icebreaker icebreaker....
  • USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280)
    USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280)

    USCGC Southwind was a Wind class icebreaker icebreaker that served in the United States Coast Guard, the Soviet Navy, the United States Navy as the USS Atka and again in the U.S....
  • USCGC Westwind (WAGB-281)
    USCGC Westwind (WAGB-281)

    USCGC Westwind was a United States Coast Guard Wind class icebreaker icebreaker....
    (Scrapped in Asia)
  • USCGC Northwind (WAGB-282) (Scrapped in Texas)
  • USCGC Burton Island (WAGB-283)
    USCGC Burton Island (WAGB-283)

    USS Burton Island was a United States Navy Wind class icebreaker icebreaker that was later re-commissioned as a United States Coast Guard icebreaker, USCGC Burton Island....
  • USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284)
    USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284)

    The USS Edisto was a in the service of the United States Navy which was later transferred to the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Edisto ....
  • USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) (Decommissioned, museum ship effort underway 2009]