Icebreaking Alaska
By: Capt. Jeffrey D. Hartman, USCG (retired)
Series: Images of America
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Charleston, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781467131087
Subjects: Icebreakers (Ships); Pictorial works; History; Ice breaking operations; Naval History; United States. Coast Guard; United States; Northwind (Cutter); Healy (Cutter); Polar Sea (Cutter)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 127).
Table of contents: title: 1. Defining Alaska icebreaking; title: 2. Diamonds in the Arctic; title: 3. Dangers of the Arctic; title: 4. Doing icebreaking then with CGC Northwind; title: 5. Delivery to the DEW line; title: 6. Doing icebreaking now with CGC Healy and CGC Polar Sea; title: 7. Duties of the Coast Guard in the Arctic; title: 8. Destiny of the Arctic.