USCGC Healy (WAGB-20)

USCGC Healy (WAGB-20)

History
United States
Name:	USCGC Healy
Namesake:	Michael A. Healy
Builder:	Avondale Shipyard
Laid down:	16 September 1996
Launched:	15 November 1997
Commissioned:	10 November 1999
Motto:	Promise and Deliver
Status:	In service
Badge:	Crest of the USCGC Healy
General characteristics
Type:	Icebreaker
Displacement:	16,000 long tons (16,257 t)
Length:	420 ft (128 m)
Beam:	82 ft (25 m)
Draft:	29 ft 3 in (8.92 m)
Installed power:	4 × Sulzer 12ZAV40S 34,560 kW (combined)
Propulsion:	Diesel-electric (AC/AC) Two shafts (2 × 11.2 MW)
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:	1999–2005: 2 × HH-65A Dolphin helicopters. 2005–present: Helicopter support by a National Science Foundation contractor.
Notes:	5 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. She is classified as a medium icebreaker by the U.S. Coast Guard. She is homeported in Seattle, Washington and was commissioned in 1999. On September 5, 2015, USCGC Healy became the first unaccompanied United States surface vessel to reach the North Pole. The current Commanding Officer is Captain Jason Hamilton. Captain Hamilton assumed command of Healy in May, 2015.

Healy was built by Avondale Industries in New Orleans, Louisiana. The construction included a technology transfer agreement between Avondale Industries and the Finnish Kværner Masa-Yards Arctic Technology Centre, where the latter provided expertise for hull form development and propulsion line engineering based on the Finnish diesel-electric icebreaker Otso.

Healy is named in honor of United States Revenue Cutter Service Captain Michael A. Healy. Her keel was laid on 16 September 1996. Healy joined the icebreakers USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) and USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) in their homeport of Seattle, Washington on 10 November 1999. The ship departed New Orleans on January 26, 2000, performing sea trials off of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and in Baffin Bay between Canada and Greenland. She arrived in Seattle on 9 August 2000 after transiting the famed Northwest Passage and was placed "In Commission, Active" on August 21, 2000.

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