USCGC
Polar Star WAGB-10
An art print of the US Coast Guard’s Ice Breaker USCGC Polar Star WAGB-10 originally painted on an Antarctica nautical chart by William B. MacGregor Jr. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) is a US Coast Guard Heavy Ice Breaker. An icebreaker is a special purpose ship designed to move and navigate through ice covered waters and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships. The curved bow allows Polar Star to ride up on the ice and break it by using the ship’s weight. The ship is able to break up 21 foot thick ice by backing & ramming and steam through 6 feet of ice at 3 knots. The Polar Star was built by Lockheed shipbuilding in Seattle, Washington and commissioned in 1976 along with her sister ship USCGC Polar Sea. After the Polar sea was deactivated in 2010, the Polar Sea is currently the only operating heavy ice breaker. Some of her duties include a yearly trip to Antarctica can clear a path so resupply ships can reach the National Science Foundation’s McMurdo Station facility. Also, the Polar Star serves as a research platform for scientific research. She has two helicopters to support scientific parties, ice reconnaissance, cargo transfer and search & rescue. The homeport of the USCGC Polar Star is Seattle, Washington. The motto of the USCGC Polar Star is “May she sail well through turbulent seas” ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Nautical
chart art print of USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) a US Coast Guard
Ice
Breaker.
Free
shipping (USA only)
Art Print
Art print is printed on low gloss photo paper.
Mounted in a beveled double mat.
Matted Art Print is ready for a standard 8”x10”, 11”x14” or 16”x20” frame.
Mat will be signed by the artist.
Note: Mat size is the outside dimension. The double matted print will fit into a standard frame that can be purchased at your local craft/department store. No need for custom framing! The image/print size is smaller than the size of the mat.
Magnet
Magnet is approximately 2 1/2” x 3 1/2” in size.
Acrylic Plastic Refrigerator Magnet.
Original Nautical Chart Painting
Original Acrylic & Watercolor painting on nautical chart.
Mounted in a 22”x28” mat.
Image opening size is approx. 13” x 18”
Sorry, I do not offer framing. But it will fit into a standard 22”x28” frame.
$349 including shipping.
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William. B. MacGregor Jr. Watercolors The Junkyard Artist
William B. MacGregor, Jr. was born in Medfield, MA, the son and grandson of Norfolk Hunt Club kennel masters. Many of his family members were self taught artists, woodcarvers, automobile mechanics and veterans of foreign wars including his father a WW1 US Army veteran. Bill is a graduate of Medfield High School, Wentworth Institute, and Northeastern University. His engineering career, from which he is now retired, included working for military and aerospace companies in industrial engineering and IR optics. His painting incorporates “old skool” mechanical and civil drafting tools and he uses a mixed medium of watercolors, acrylics and inks. Two rabbits are often in quite a few of his paintings. Look for them. He is frequently commissioned by United States Naval officers to create paintings of their ships and aircraft carriers on nautical charts. In May, 2018, and for one year, four of Bill’s automotive related paintings were on display at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, MA