In 1950 Dame Caroline Haslett was accorded the honour of launching a motor collier ship named after her at the shipyard of Hall, Russell and Co., Aberdeen. Coal was the UK’s principal source of energy and colliers were commonplace around UK coasts. If MV Dame Caroline Haslett had remained as one collier amongst many it would not have been sufficiently remarkable to justify further investigation. However, this article brings together, some notable aspects of the vessel: it was one of a relatively small number of motor-engined colliers (most were steam powered), it was named after a very remarkable woman, and it later became a cable-laying ship laying the first Cross-Channel power interconnector.

1950 年，卡罗琳·哈斯莱特 (Dame Caroline Haslett) 爵士荣幸地在阿伯丁霍尔罗素公司 (Hall, Russell and Co.) 的造船厂下水了一艘以她的名字命名的机动运煤船。煤炭是英国的主要能源，煤矿在英国沿海地区随处可见。如果 MV Caroline Haslett 夫人仍然是众多矿工中的一员，那么它就不足以证明进一步调查的合理性。然而，这篇文章汇集了这艘船的一些值得注意的方面：它是数量相对较少的机动运煤船之一（大多数是蒸汽动力的），它以一位非常杰出的女性的名字命名，后来成为电缆-铺设船铺设第一个跨海峡电力互连器。