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The US is facing a potential shortfall in icebreaking capability after its only remaining vessel, the ageing Polar Star, suffered an electrical fire on 10 February.
The 43-year-old ship, the only functioning icebreaker remaining in the US fleet, completed a life-extension works in 2013, theoretically allowing it to operate until 2023. But its viability was called into question after a series of incidents during the vessel

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Re: Only working US icebreaker catches fire on return from Antarctica
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2019, 02:46:39 AM »
The US is facing a potential shortfall in icebreaking capability after ...

Not good. The potential shortfall in icebreaking capability is also an issue in Canada and both countries share icebreaking duties on the Seaway and Great Lakes system. Canadian politicians mess around the icebreaker fleet renewal. We need all icebreakers we can find, not losing another ship...

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Re: Only working US icebreaker catches fire on return from Antarctica
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2019, 09:34:06 AM »
When you have absolutely no idea what kind of ship you need but yet insist that it should be built at a shipyard that has never built an icebreaker, no wonder it takes more than a decade to procure a single vessel that ends up being also the world's most expensive icebreaker.

With Finland's latest icebreaker, Polaris, it took about 3

 

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