A Coast Guard icebreaker is a ship that can take on anything—and that’s why Molly Kool’s sister believes it was the perfect ship to be named after her.
The Captain Molly Kool was welcomed to the Coast Guard fleet at the Atlantic Region Headquarters in St. John’s yesterday.
(Photo by Amy Fitzpatrick.)
The ship is named after the first woman in North America to be certified of Master of a Cargo Steamship in the Home Trade.
Kool’s baby sister, Martha Miller was on hand for yesterday’s ceremony. She says an icebreaker is a perfect fit.
(Photo by Amy Fitzpatrick.)
Miller says Kool had to do it all: cook, start the engine, watch the compass, the tide and everything else.
Miller says Molly never understood the importance of what she was doing until much later in life.
She says at the time Kool felt that women should be just as well off as men, and it really annoyed her that they had opportunities that she did not.
(Photo by Amy Fitzpatrick.)
