CCGS Captain Molly Kool (courtesy Canadian Coast Guard)
An official dedication ceremony will be held Thursday for the first new Coast Guard icebreaker in 25 years which is named after a New Brunswicker.
The Canadian Coast Guard Ship “Captain Molly Kool” will be dedicated in her home port of St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Dignitaries will be on hand including Governor General Julie Payette and federal fisheries minister Jonathan Wilkinson.
Born in Alma to a seafaring family in 1916, Myrtle “Molly” Kool was only the second woman in the world to become a licensed ship captain in 1937.
Acquired from Norway and retrofitted at a Quebec shipyard, the CCGS Captain Molly Kool has already been undertaking icebreaking operations in the Atlantic region.
