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Homeland Security

Coast Guard’s Healy Polar Icebreaker Aborts Mission Due To Fire

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, August 25th, 2020

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Coast Guard’s Healy Polar Icebreaker Aborts Mission Due To Fire

View of the Coast Guard medium icebreaker Healy's aft working deck while in Seward, Alaska on Aug. 15. Photo taken from the Healy's Facebook page.

The Coast Guard on Tuesday said a fire earlier this month aboard its sole medium polar icebreaker, the cutter Healy, put one of its propulsion motors out of service, forcing the ship to scrub its annual scientific mission to the Arctic and return to port. The fire broke out on Aug. 18, taking out the Healy’s starboard propulsion motor and shaft while the ship was 60 nautical miles off of Seward, Alaska, where it had embarked 11 scientists earlier that…

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