USS HEALY (WAGB-20)

The class-defining 420 ft. polar ice breaker.

Latest Healy News

March 16, 2003  News Release - Healy Update

November 2004 Letter to NLUS from Captain Daniel Oliver

September Press Release - Healy reaches North Pole unassisted!

Links to information about the Healy:

Healy home page
http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/healy/

An excellent slide-show of Healy photographs
http://www.whoi.edu/science/GG/corelab/voyages/icetrials_s1.html

Healy history
http://www.mardigrasfun.com/bsp/200th/raind/healyavo.htm

Healy mission
http://tea.rice.edu/kolb/5.19.2000.html

Specifications
http://www.mlml.calstate.edu/unols/council/cncmt504/app_7.html
http://www.mlml.calstate.edu/unols/council/cncmt509/c995ap9.html

How Ice Breakers break ice
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mnpowers/howicebr.htm

Other
http://www.piersystem.com/external/final_View.cfm?pressID=833&CID=77