USCGC Glacier
icebreaker
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- USCGC Glacier
- IMO number
- 6123672
- MMSI
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- Call sign
- —
- Flag
- —
- Vessel type
- icebreaker
- Gross tonnage
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- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- 94.4 m
- Beam
- 22.7 m
- Year built
- 1955
- Builder
- Ingalls Shipbuilding
- Registered owner
- United States Navy
- Operator
- United States Navy
Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About USCGC Glacier
USS Glacier (AGB-4) (later USCGC Glacier; WAG/WAGB-4) was a U.S. Navy, then U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker which served in the first through fifteenth Operation Deep Freeze expeditions. Glacier was the first icebreaker to make her way through the frozen Bellingshausen Sea, and most of the topography in the area is named for her crew members. When built, Glacier had the largest capacity single armature DC motors ever installed on a ship. Glacier was capable of breaking ice up to 20 feet (6.1 m) thick, and of continuous breaking of 4-foot (1.2 m) thick ice at 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph). Named for Glacier Bay, Alaska, USS Glacier was launched on 27 August 1954 at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Mississippi, sponsored by Mrs. Roscoe F. Good; and commissioned on 27 May 1955, CDR. E.H. Mayer USN, Commanding. Glacier is the only icebreaker built in the Glacier class, and was in U.S.
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is USCGC Glacier now?
- USCGC Glacier has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is USCGC Glacier?
- USCGC Glacier is a icebreaker, built in 1955 by Ingalls Shipbuilding. The vessel is 94.4 m long with a beam of 22.7 m.
- Who owns USCGC Glacier?
- USCGC Glacier is registered to United States Navy. Ownership data is compiled from public registries and shown free on Seadar.
- Has USCGC Glacier been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for USCGC Glacier appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).