Post 2000
Red Hulls
399′ Polar Class Icebreaker Model: Yes Designation Name Class Hull Service Comments Pictures USCGC Polar Star WAGB 10 1976 – Active USCGC Polar Sea WAGB 11 1976 – Active 420′ Healy Class Icebreaker Model: No Designation Name Class Hull Service Comments Pictures USCGC Healy WAGB 20 2000 – Active Named for Mike “Hell Roarin” Healy …
Training Cutters
295’ Barque Eagle Built in 1936 and named Horst Wessel a storm trooper who wrote the Nazi party anthem and died fighting German Communists in 1930 Training ship in the German Navy Seized as a war prize in 1946 Commissioned into the Coast Guard as the Academy training cutter Only sailing vessel in commissioned US …
Small Boats
Lifeboats Lifeboats were the companions to the surfboats They were self bailable and self rightable and much heavier They were generally kept in the water so they were faster to launch But they were not easily used on large sandy beaches where piers could not be built The original boat was a borrowed British boat …