The Kingston Class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel, HMCS GLACE BAY (MM 701), will be visiting Hamilton from 24 to 29 June as the first stop of her deployment to the Great Lakes. GLACE BAY, commissioned in 1996, is well travelled, having assisted in the SwissAir disaster in 1998, conducted mine countermeasure exercises in the Baltic, taken part in a number of counter-drug operations in the Caribbean, visited the Gulf of Guinea off Africa and spent time in the Canadian arctic as part of Op Nanook.