More than 75 mailboats and owners listed in Government document c1995-2005

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

  1. M/V LADY D.
  2. M/V CENTRALANDROS ESPRESS
  3. M/V ABLIN
  4. M/V BAHAMAS DAYBREAK III
  5. M/V BIMINI MACK
  6. M/V CAPTAIN MOXEY III
  7. M/V CAPTAIN DEAN V
  8. M/V CURRENT QUEEN RAGGED ISLAND DEVELOPMENT MAIL BOAT SERVICES
  9. M/V DEBORAH K. II
  10. M/V CAPTAIN DELMOR L.
  11. M/V ELEUTHERA EXPRESS
  12. M/V CURRENT PRIDE
  13. M/V FIESTA MAILBOAT
  14. M/V GOLD FINGER
  15. M/V GRAND MASTER
  16. M/V GURTH DEANE
  17. M/V HARLEY AND CHARLEY
  18. M/V JELETA MAIL & FERRY SERVICES
  19. M/V LADY BLANCHE
  20. M/V LADY EMERALD
  21. M/V LADY EULA
  22. M/V LADY GLORIA
  23. M/V LADY MATHILDA
  24. M/V LADY ROSLYNN ROSALIND
  25. M/V LEGACY
  26. M/V LISA J. II
  27. M/V MANGROVE CAY EXPRESS II, REV KING
  28. M/V MARCELLA II
  29. M/V ISLAND LINK
  30. M/V MIA DEAN
  31. M/V ISLAND SPIRIT
  32. M/V NAY DEAN
  33. M/V K.C.T
  34. M/V CURRENT PRIDE
  35. M/V SEA HAULER PROPOSED MAILBOAT FOR SOUTH CAT ISLAND
  36. M/V EAST WIND
  37. M/V SHERICE M
  38. M/V TRANS CARGO II
  39. M/V UNITED STAR
  40. M/V NORTH CAT ISLAND SPECIAL
  41. M/V LADY KATHERINE
  42. M/V LEGACY
  43. M/V EMMET & CEPHAS
  44. M/V LADY ETHEL (NOW CAPTAIN “C’)
  45. M/V LADY FRANCIS
  46. M/V SEALINK BAHAMAS LIMITED
  47. M/V MICHELLE W
  48. OCEAN ENTERPRISES LTD (CAPT PAUL W. KRUGER)
  49. M/V MANGROVE CAY EXPRESS
  50. M/V ELEIJTHERA EXPRESS
  51. M/V/ MIA DEAN VOL 1
  52. M/V CHRISTINE D, PROPOSED MAIL BOAT CAPT DEAN
  53. M/V WILL MARY
  54. M/V LADY GLORIA, PROPOSED MAIL BOAT VOL 2
  55. M/V WILL LAURIE VOL 2 CONTRACT MAIL SERVICE
  56. M/V BIG YARD EXPRESS, CONINENTAL INVESTMENT (1979) LTD
  57. PROPOSED MAILBOAT SAN SALVADOR AND RUM CAY VOL 3
  58. M/V OFFSHORE MAIL SERVICES HATCHET BAY & GOVERNOR’S HARBOUR VOL 1
  59. PROPOSED MAILIBOAT ELEUTHERA GROUP VOL 1
  60. M/V CURRENT PRIDE, ELDON ENTERPRISED COMPANY LIMITED VOL 1,
  61. M/V SOUTH ANDROS QUEEN, ELDON ENTERPRISED COMPANY LIMITED VOL 1
  62. M/V CAPTAIN MOXEY II, VOL 1
  63. M/V LADY FRANCIS, GLADSTONE & LEVITIUS PATTON, PROPOSED MAILBOAT FOR EXUMA CAYS, VOL 1 & 2
  64. M/V LADY D, CONTRACT MAIL SERVICES
  65. M/V CENTRAL ANDROS EXPRESS, CONTRACT MAIL SERVICES
  66. M/V GRAND MASTER, PROPOSED MAIL BOAT SERVICES FOR GEORGE TOWN EXUMA, EXUMA TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LTD
  67. M/V MISS JUANITA I, SOUTH ELEUTHERA SHIPPING COMPANY
  68. M/V CHAMPION II, PROPOSED MAILBOAT
  69. M/V BAHAMAS DAYBREAK II
  70. M/V HARLEY & CHARLEY PROPOSED MAILBOAT FOR SOUTH ANDROS (HARLEY SIMMS) VOL 1
  71. M/V TRANS CARGO II
  72. M/V EMMET AND CEPHAS
  73. M/V LADY ETHEL VOL 1
  74. M/V JADE
  75. M/V MARCELLA III
  76. M/V BIMINI MACK .
  77. M/V MANGROVE CAY EXPRESS 2 (REV KING)
  78. M/V GRAND MASTER
  79. M/V NORTH CAT ISLAND SPECIAL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY,
  80. M/V LADY ROSELIND
  81. M/V JULETA MAIL AND FERRY SERVICES M.V.B.S.
  82. M/V LADY BLANCHE
  83. M/V LADY MATHILDA
  84. M/V COMMONWEALTH, PROPOSED MAILBOAT SERVICES TO ELEUTI-IERA/MR. CHARLES COOPER
  85. MR. LAMBRI C. GATES
  86. M/V WINDWARD EXPRESS, WINDWARD SHIPPING CO. (CAPTAIN  LEROY FERGUSON)

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