USCGC Healy

USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) north of Alaska
History
United States
NameHealy
NamesakeMichael A. Healy
BuilderAvondale Shipyard
Laid down16 September 1996
Launched15 November 1997
Commissioned10 November 1999
Identification
MottoPromise and Deliver
StatusIn service
Badge
  • Crest of the USCGC Healy
General characteristics
TypeMedium icebreaker (USCG)
Displacement16,000 long tons (16,257 t)
Length420 ft (128 m)
Beam82 ft (25 m)
Draft29 ft 3 in (8.92 m)
Installed power
  • 4 × Sulzer 12ZAV40S
  • 34,560 kW (46,350 hp) (combined)
Propulsion
Speed
  • 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) (maximum)
  • 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) (cruising)
  • 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) in 4.5 ft (1.4 m) ice
Complement
  • 19 officers
  • 12 CPO
  • 54 enlisted
  • 51 scientists
Aircraft carried
Notes5 laboratories: Main Lab, Wet Lab, Bio-Chem Lab, Electronics Lab, Meteorological Lab

USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) is the United States' largest and most technologically advanced icebreaker as well as the US Coast Guard's largest vessel.[1] She is classified as a medium icebreaker by the Coast Guard.[1] She is homeported in Seattle, Washington, and was commissioned in 1999. On 6 September 2001 Healy visited the North Pole for the first time. The second visit occurred on 12 September 2005. On 5 September 2015, Healy became the first unaccompanied United States surface vessel to reach the North Pole, and Healy's fourth Pole visit (and her second unaccompanied visit) happened on 30 September 2022.

  1. ^ a b "USCGC HEALY". CGC HEALY. 24 May 2015. Archived from the original on 1 January 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2015.