M/V Richard Campbell, serving Abaco from Nassau in the 1940s

NOTES: 

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:

WEEKS’ ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES     

Mar 29 Richard Campbell due 2 pm passengers freight from Nassau – sails 2 days later