New resources and lists of mail boats in service in the Bahamas from the 1970s to the present:
This document has been transcribed from a Bahamas Government 4-page PDF posted online. It is not dated, but from the names of some of the vessels it can be estimated that it was published c.2000. What is interesting is that in about a dozen cases there are the names of the owning companies, or even the captains of the mailboats. This was an open resource index to government files with the Ministry of Transport and Aviation:
MAILBOAT OPEN FILE LISTING
- M/V LADY D.
- M/V CENTRALANDROS ESPRESS
- M/V ABLIN
- M/V BAHAMAS DAYBREAK III
- M/V BIMINI MACK
- M/V CAPTAIN MOXEY III
- M/V CAPTAIN DEAN V
- M/V CURRENT QUEEN RAGGED ISLAND DEVELOPMENT MAIL BOAT SERVICES
- M/V DEBORAH K. II
- M/V CAPTAIN DELMOR L.
- M/V ELEUTHERA EXPRESS
- M/V CURRENT PRIDE
- M/V FIESTA MAILBOAT
- M/V GOLD FINGER
- M/V GRAND MASTER
- M/V GURTH DEANE
- M/V HARLEY AND CHARLEY
- M/V JELETA MAIL & FERRY SERVICES
- M/V LADY BLANCHE
- M/V LADY EMERALD
- M/V LADY EULA
- M/V LADY GLORIA
- M/V LADY MATHILDA
- M/V LADY ROSLYNN ROSALIND
- M/V LEGACY
- M/V LISA J. II
- M/V MANGROVE CAY EXPRESS II, REV KING
- M/V MARCELLA II
- M/V ISLAND LINK
- M/V MIA DEAN
- M/V ISLAND SPIRIT
- M/V NAY DEAN
- M/V K.C.T
- M/V CURRENT PRIDE
- M/V SEA HAULER PROPOSED MAILBOAT FOR SOUTH CAT ISLAND
- M/V EAST WIND
- M/V SHERICE M
- M/V TRANS CARGO II
- M/V UNITED STAR
- M/V NORTH CAT ISLAND SPECIAL
- M/V LADY KATHERINE
- M/V LEGACY
- M/V EMMET & CEPHAS
- M/V LADY ETHEL (NOW CAPTAIN “C’)
- M/V LADY FRANCIS
- M/V SEALINK BAHAMAS LIMITED
- M/V MICHELLE W–
- OCEAN ENTERPRISES LTD (CAPT – PAUL W. KRUGER)
- M/V MANGROVE CAY EXPRESS
- M/V ELEIJTHERA EXPRESS
- M/V/ MIA DEAN VOL 1
- M/V CHRISTINE D, PROPOSED MAIL BOAT CAPT DEAN
- M/V WILL MARY
- M/V LADY GLORIA, PROPOSED MAIL BOAT VOL 2
- M/V WILL LAURIE VOL 2 CONTRACT MAIL SERVICE
- M/V BIG YARD EXPRESS, CONINENTAL INVESTMENT (1979) LTD
- PROPOSED MAILBOAT SAN SALVADOR AND RUM CAY VOL 3
- M/V OFFSHORE MAIL SERVICES HATCHET BAY & GOVERNOR’S HARBOUR VOL 1
- PROPOSED MAILIBOAT ELEUTHERA GROUP VOL 1
- M/V CURRENT PRIDE, ELDON ENTERPRISED COMPANY LIMITED VOL 1,
- M/V SOUTH ANDROS QUEEN, ELDON ENTERPRISED COMPANY LIMITED VOL 1
- M/V CAPTAIN MOXEY II, VOL 1
- M/V LADY FRANCIS, GLADSTONE & LEVITIUS PATTON, PROPOSED MAILBOAT FOR EXUMA CAYS, VOL 1 & 2
- M/V LADY D, CONTRACT MAIL SERVICES
- M/V CENTRAL ANDROS EXPRESS, CONTRACT MAIL SERVICES
- M/V GRAND MASTER, PROPOSED MAIL BOAT SERVICES FOR GEORGE TOWN EXUMA, EXUMA TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LTD
- M/V MISS JUANITA I, SOUTH ELEUTHERA SHIPPING COMPANY
- M/V CHAMPION II, PROPOSED MAILBOAT
- M/V BAHAMAS DAYBREAK II
- M/V HARLEY & CHARLEY PROPOSED MAILBOAT FOR SOUTH ANDROS (HARLEY SIMMS) VOL 1
- M/V TRANS CARGO II
- M/V EMMET AND CEPHAS
- M/V LADY ETHEL VOL 1
- M/V JADE
- M/V MARCELLA III
- M/V BIMINI MACK .
- M/V MANGROVE CAY EXPRESS 2 (REV KING)
- M/V GRAND MASTER
- M/V NORTH CAT ISLAND SPECIAL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY,
- M/V LADY ROSELIND
- M/V JULETA MAIL AND FERRY SERVICES M.V.B.S.
- M/V LADY BLANCHE
- M/V LADY MATHILDA
- M/V COMMONWEALTH, PROPOSED MAILBOAT SERVICES TO ELEUTI-IERA/MR. CHARLES COOPER
- MR. LAMBRI C. GATES
- M/V WINDWARD EXPRESS, WINDWARD SHIPPING CO. (CAPTAIN LEROY FERGUSON)
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