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Post 2000: Special Mission Cutters

The Polar Fleet

399' Polar Class Icebreaker

Designation Name Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC Polar Star WAGB 10 1976 - Active    
USCGC Polas Sea WAGB 11 1976 - Active    

420' Healy Class Icebreaker

Designation Name Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC Healy WAGB 20 2000 - Active Named for Mike "Hell Roarin" Healy
Famous longtime skipper of the famous Bear		 Yes

Training Cutters

Designation Name Class Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
               
USCGC Eagle (ex SNS Horst Wessel) 295 Barque WIX 327 1946 - Active Built in 1936 and named Horst Wessel
a stormtrooper who wrote the Nazi party anthem
and died fighting German Communists in 1930
Traing ship in the German Navy
Siezed as a war prize in 1946
Commissioned into the Coast Guard as the Academy training cutter
Only sailing vessel in commissioned US service
America's Tall Ship