First Solo U.S. Surface Ship Reaches North Pole

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, homeported in Seattle, arrived at the North Pole earlier this month, becoming the first U.S. surface ship to do so unaccompanied, the Coast Guard says. This is also only the fourth time a U.S. surface vessel has ever reached the North Pole, and the first since 2005...

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