MV Fundy Rose is a RORO passenger ship owned by the Government of Canada, which entered service with Bay Ferries in 2015 between Saint John, New Brunswick, and Digby, Nova Scotia, replacing the MV Princess of Acadia.
Blue Star Ithaki was ordered by Greek shipowner Strintzis Lines from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering.
[3] Her keel was laid on 15 July 1999 at Daewoo's Okpo shipyard, she was launched on 24 November, and was handed over to her owners on 31 March 2000, though construction work continued until May.
[5] Fundy Rose was unveiled to the public in both Saint John and Digby in mid-July 2015,[2][6] and entered service by the end of the month.
[7] The new name was taken from The Bay of Fundy, where she operates, and from Rose Fortune, a woman born into slavery in the U.S. She escaped with her family arriving in Annapolis Royal (an historic village close to Digby) in the 1780s as a ten-year-old girl.