Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard District 17 | 12.29.2022
Tug vessel Tagish is partially submerged at the National Guard Dock in the vicinity of the Alaska Marine Lines yard in the Gastineau Channel, Juneau, Alaska, Dec. 29, 2022. Coast Guard Sector Juneau crew members and contractors are responding the incident. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Sector Juneau)...
Photo by Chief Petty Officer Kip Wadlow | U.S. Coast Guard District 17 | 02.12.2021
JUNEAU, Alaska - U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star transits the Gastineau Channel to moor up in Juneau, Alaska, on Feb. 12, 2021 The crew arrived in Juneau for a logistics stop as they neared the end of their months-long Arctic deployment in support of operation Arctic West Winter 2021, where they conducted scientific research and protected the nation’s maritime sovereignty and security......
Photo by Chief Petty Officer Kip Wadlow | U.S. Coast Guard District 17 | 02.12.2021
JUNEAU, Alaska - U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star transits the Gastineau Channel to moor up in Juneau, Alaska, on Feb. 12, 2021, as the crew nears the end of their months-long Arctic deployment. In addition to Polar Star’s strategic national security objectives, the nation’s sole heavy icebreaker sailed north with scientists and researchers aboard to work in partnership with the U.S.......
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ali Blackburn | U.S. Coast Guard District 17 | 02.12.2021
JUNEAU, Alaska - U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star transits the Gastineau Channel to moor up in Juneau, Alaska, on Feb. 12, 2021. The Seattle-based vessel arrived in Juneau for a logistics stop as the crew neared the end of their months-long Arctic deployment conducting scientific research and protecting the nation's maritime sovereignty and security throughout the polar region. U.S.......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Walter Shinn | U.S. Coast Guard District 17 | 11.18.2009
JUNEAU, Alaska - Seaman Aaron Ellis, a crewmember aboard Seattle based 399-foot Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea, is standing by to throw a heaving line that is connected to a mooring line which holds the cutter in place at the South Franklin Pier Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. The Polar Sea became the first American surface ship that sailed to the geographic North Pole on Aug. 22, 1994.U.S. Coast......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Walter Shinn | U.S. Coast Guard District 17 | 11.18.2009
JUNEAU, Alaska - The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea, the world's most powerful non-nuclear icebreaker, maneuvers in Gastineau Channel as the crew prepares mooring lines which will secure the cutter to the South Franklin Pier Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. The Polar Sea has made 18 voyages to the Arctic Ocean and the cutter's awards include six Coast Guard Unit Commendations, the Navy Meritorious......
Photo by Sgt. Intisar Sabree | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 11.18.2009
Master Chief Petty Officer Scott Krehmeier, an electrician's mate aboard the Seattle based 399 foot Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea, follows a checklist as he prepares to shutdown the engines as the cutter comes to a stop while mooring lines are secured to the South Franklin Pier Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. The Polar Sea has a total of six diesel electric engines, three gas turbine engines and......
