The District’s oldest fireboat, and the only one that also serves as an icebreaker, is back in D.C. waters again after being ...

The cutter Storis is expected to arrive in Juneau this August, but it will leave again to be temporarily berthed in Seattle.

Smashing ice is straightforward—except when it is more than 10 feet thick and you’re using a ship, even one designed for the job. If an icebreaker’s hull is the wrong shape, the ice bends ...

Icebreakers are highly specialized ships with the ability not just to sail the seven seas, but also to crash through the ice on frozen oceans. Taking to ice-laden water has always been fraught ...

While polar-capable ships are often colloquially referred ... a crucial piece of equipment for testing icebreaker hull designs. Naval architects have in the past singled out such infrastructure ...

The keel was affixed to the ship’s hull by Antonov, Konovalov and Andrey Buzinov ... with a fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers in the process of being built as part of Project 22220 - the first ...

The company held an event Friday to mark the signing of construction contracts with the federal government for a $3.15-billion (before tax), 158-metre polar icebreaker, designed to traverse the ...

The company held an event Friday to mark the signing of construction contracts with the federal government for a $3.15-billion (before tax), 158-metre polar icebreaker ... through the bottom of the ...

A design rendering shows how the Canadian Coast Guard’s new polar ice breaker should look after ... equipment through the bottom of the ship’s hull. The federal government says the ship ...

Designed to break through ice up to 10ft thick, the massive icebreaker struck the cargo ship’s hull, causing it to lurch violently before reversing away following the nighttime impact.