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Fire breaks out aboard USCGC Polar Star

Fire breaks out aboard USCGC Polar Star

01 Mar 2019 12:45 | Anonymous

The one thing you don't want to hear announced on a ship at sea is "Fire... fire... fire!" But it happened Feb. 10 aboard the Seattle-based heavy icebreaker, more than 600 miles north of McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Fortunately, there were no injuries.

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(Web Editor Phil Johnson, then a LTJG, was Master of Ceremonies for Polar Star's commissioning in 1976).

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