{"id":10923,"date":"2025-06-05T20:02:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=10923"},"modified":"2025-06-05T20:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:02:35","slug":"coast-guard-polar-icebreaker-storis-departs-on-its-maiden-voyage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=10923","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard polar icebreaker Storis departs on its maiden voyage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Coast Guard polar icebreaker Storis departs on its maiden voyage<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter <em>Storis<\/em> (WAGB 21) the first polar icebreaker acquired by the Coast Guard in more than 25 years, departed on its maiden voyage to safeguard U.S. sovereign interests in the Arctic and conduct Coast Guard missions, less than six months after the Coast Guard awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/coast-guard-issues-aiviq-acquisition-contract\/\">contract to acquire the former Edison Chouest Offshore vessel Aiviq<\/a> and took delivery of the vessel.\u202f\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-wp-embed is-provider-marine-log wp-block-embed-marine-log\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"YkTNCs7be7\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/coast-guard-issues-aiviq-acquisition-contract\/\">Coast Guard issues $125M Aiviq acquisition contract<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"\u201cCoast Guard issues $125M Aiviq acquisition contract\u201d \u2014 Marine Log\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/coast-guard-issues-aiviq-acquisition-contract\/embed\/#?secret=DoIySO7RKH#?secret=YkTNCs7be7\" data-secret=\"YkTNCs7be7\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Storis<\/em> will expand U.S. operational presence in the Arctic and support Coast Guard missions while the polar security cutter (PSC) class is in production. Storis will be commissioned this August in Juneau, Alaska, which will be the vessel\u2019s permanent homeport once shore infrastructure upgrades are completed. Meantime, the vessel will operate out of Seattle while shore infrastructure work in Juneau is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Acquisition of a commercially available polar icebreaker does not affect the acquisition of the PSCs, and the vessel will not be included in the PSC program of record. <em>Storis<\/em> was acquired under an accelerated strategy to bolster mission readiness in the Arctic region while production on the PSC progresses.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition was made possible through the Don Young Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2022 and fiscal year 2024 appropriations.<\/p>\n<p><em>Storis<\/em>\u2019 departure is an early milestone in the service\u2019s  Force Design 2028 (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4kt2B1U\">FD2028)<\/a> strategy, which includes reforming Coast Guard acquisitions to rapidly deploy capabilities to execute the Coast Guard\u2019s missions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Storis <\/em>is commanded by Capt. Keith M. Ropella who currently serves as chief of cutter forces at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington D.C., and who previously commanded Coast Guard Cutter <em>Polar Star <\/em>(WAGB 10), from July 2022 to July 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel is manned with a hybrid crew consisting of military cuttermen and civilian mariners. It is the second vessel in Coast Guard history to bear the name <em>Storis<\/em>. The original <em>Storis<\/em>, known as the \u201cGalloping Ghost of the Alaskan Coast,\u201d had a storied history conducting 64 years of icebreaking operations in Alaska and the Arctic before being decommissioned in 2007.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marinelog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/storisaerial.jpg?resize=700%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Storis\" class=\"wp-image-101164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/storisaerial.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/storisaerial-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/storisaerial-209x157.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/storisaerial-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/storisaerial-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo: Edison Chouest Offshore<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/coast-guard-polar-icebreaker-storis-departs-on-its-maiden-voyage\/\">Coast Guard polar icebreaker Storis departs on its maiden voyage<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/\">Marine Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Nick Blenkey<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/coast-guard-polar-icebreaker-storis-departs-on-its-maiden-voyage\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=coast-guard-polar-icebreaker-storis-departs-on-its-maiden-voyage\">Go to marinelog<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coast Guard polar icebreaker Storis departs on its maiden voyage The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Storis (WAGB 21) the first polar icebreaker acquired by the Coast Guard in more than 25 years, departed on its maiden voyage to safeguard U.S. sovereign interests in the Arctic and conduct Coast Guard missions, less than six months after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1109,1111,192,199,1829,979],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-10923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aiviq","category-icebreaker","category-marinelog","category-news","category-storis","category-uscg","tag-marinelog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}