How many icebreakers are on the Great Lakes?

Today, the Coast Guard has nine cutters on the Great Lakes capable of breaking ice. Six of them are older buoy-tender designs more suited to aiding harbors and clearing ice jams in connecting channels like the St. Clair River. The Canadians have two cutters serving the Great Lakes.



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