USCGC Healy: Difference between revisions

'''USCGC ''Healy'' (WAGB-20)''' is the United States' largest and most technologically advanced [[icebreaker]] as well as the [[United States Coast Guard|US Coast Guard]]'s largest vessel.<ref name="USCGC HEALY">{{cite web |title = USCGC HEALY |url = http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcHealy |website = CGC HEALY |date = 24 May 2015 |access-date = 7 December 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160101232447/http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgchealy/ |archive-date = 1 January 2016 |url-status = live }}</ref> She is classified as a medium icebreaker by the Coast Guard.<ref name="USCGC HEALY"/> She is [[Home port|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.