Just a few more rams then.
Mirai II is a pretty traditional-looking icebreaking research ship with twin diesel-electric shafts.
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The Northwind got stuck when the wind shifted. Couldn’t move enough to get any speed for ramming. Spent several days stuck until the wind finally shifted. Those poor suckers had already made the Northwest Passage west to east, THEN had to turn around and go back east to west. The Staten Island got to circumnavigate North America. NYC, San Juan, and Panama liberty ports before getting back to Seattle.
When our little 10,000-horsepower icebreaker was following one of the nuclear-powered icebreakers which, in turn, was towing an ice-strengthened freighter, we suddenly we saw the ice channel closing before our eyes and the atomic behemoth disappeared into the fog as our speed gradually dropped to zero. Although we were never fully immobilized, we decided it wasn’t worth the fuel to continue crawling through the ice pack stern-first. After a few hours, the compression eased and we could continue our voyage.
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Something we also covered a bit in this thread:
Which breaker were you stationed on ?
wow, that airfield on the stern looks HEAVY !!!
It’s over the bow. Pretty standard location for offshore vessels. Rated for Ka-32 which is a medium-sized helicopter (MTOW 12 tons). When we had visitors arriving in a bigger Mi-8, they landed on the ice next to the ship.
Few fresh articles related to the PSC:
Although I don’t think anyone is seriously pushing this approach, there’s also a new blog post serving as a kind of reminder that in theory USCG icebreakers could be built abroad with a Presidential waiver:
Finally, Seaspan has unveiled a digital model of Canadian Coast Guard’s new heavy polar icebreaker:
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Go ahead and build the hull, at least. Then by the time the government gets through fiddlefarting, warp capabilities will be available. 
We should consider building a couple of new icebreakers to the off the shelf Canadian design.
We should also consider building them at Seaspan in Vancouver. Seaspan maybe be a few miles across the border, but it is American owned.
our opinions here are top shelf and any reasonable "“represenative body “”” would indeed determine our opinions first rate.
but then, … our form of govt. sorta precludes that … unless mabey, perhaps, a nuke lands on about 5 major cities?
In May, PSC’s functional design was estimated to be about 67 % complete, the vessel’s delivery had slipped to 2029, and cost increased to US$5.1 billion for three vessels.
According to Seaspan’s press release, the functional design of the Canadian Coast Guard polar icebreaker is about 70 % complete. The vessel’s delivery time has not been confirmed but has been estimated as 2030. In 2021, the total cost of the program was estimated as C$7.25 billion for two vessels. That’s C$8.30 billion (US$6.08 billion) today when adjusted for inflation.
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American Industrialist Dennis Washington owns Seaspan.
Dennis Washington
Dennis R. Washington (born 1934) is an American billionaire industrialist who owns, or co-owns controlling interests in, a large consortium of privately held companies collectively known as the Washington Companies and, in Canada, another collection of companies known as the Seaspan Marine Corporation.
Dennis Washington
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Born July 27, 1934 (age 89)
Spokane, Washington, US
Occupation(s) Owner, The Washington Companies and Seaspan Marine Corporation
Spouse Phyllis Washington
Children 2 sons
Does Philly have any orders after the fifth NSVM, Golden State II, that’s scheduled for delivery in 2026?