The Coast Guard's Polar Star is the nation's only heavy polar icebreaker. In this Coast Guard photo the vessel is shown conducting ice breaking operations in Antarctica in Jan. 2017.
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The Coast Guard’s nascent effort to acquire a commercial icebreaker to help fill near-term Arctic icebreaking needs should be expanded beyond a domestically available ship to also consider foreign vessels, House appropriators say.
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