US Coast Guard Newest Icebreaker to Juneau as Healy Suffers Major Fire

The US Coast Guard recently Wednesday that it will homeport its newest icebreaker - a commercially acquired ship to be adapted for homeland security - in Juneau, Alaska, as its 27-year-old Arctic icebreaker aborted its summer deployment following an electrical fire.

This is reported by Military.com.

The vessel currently known as the Aiviq should be operational in 2026, according to a service announcement.

While the Coast Guard previously had said it favored Juneau as the ship's home station, officials said as recently as June that it had not received funding to build the infrastructure needed in the Alaskan capital.

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