MAILBOAT NAME: M/V Richard Campbell
Author Kevin Griffin kindly shared the following excerpt from his upcoming book;
“The G W K Roberts Co, also known as the Monarch Line also operated two small vessels, the 215-ton Monarch of Nassau and 186-ton Richard Campbell, which had been used on the Miami-Nassau mail route before the war, but these two were used on longer 12-day voyages through the Out Islands and usually called at the P&O Dock in Miami. Meanwhile, the Jean Brillant would return at the end of 1942 to resume her winter passenger and cargo service, and next time it would be for a longer spell.”
Here is a passage from “Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People. Volume II, From the End of Slavery to the 21st Century” By Michael Craton & Gail Saunders (University of Georgia Press, 2000, pages 316-319) about young Jack Ford from Essex, England, who arrives via the M/V Richard Campbell in Green Turtle Cay in 1947:
See also “Harbor Highlights,” by Grover Theis – Waterfront Reporter for the Daily News, The Miami News, March 27, 1940, page 4 A
Carl Sawyer, Agent (P&O Dock)
For data on ship/s see http://www.crewlist.org.uk/data/vesselsnumview.php?OfficialNumber=159963
or http://www.shipindex.org/ships/richard_campbell