M/V Legacy serving Marsh Harbour, Guana Cay, Green Turtle Cay Abaco Bahamas for Dean’s Shipping Co.

by Eric Wiberg


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Photo of M/V Legacy at Potter’s Cay Dock Nassau, c/o Oliver Bremer, Grosstonnage.com, 
Source: http://www.grosstonnage.com/index.php

MAILBOAT NAME: M/V Legacy 
PAST NAMES: none known
DIMENSIONS: 160 feet long, 36 feet wide, 485 gross tons, 600 summer deadweight cargo carrying capacity, Ro-Pax, or roll-on/roll-off passengers, Ro-Ro style, also described as Lo-Lo, Load-on, Load-off, IMO # 9265847
BUILDER: Rodriguez Coden, Coden, Alabama, USA
YEAR BUILT: 2002
EARLY CAREER: appears to have been plying its trade under Bahamas flag in Bahamas since launched
CAPTAINS: not known
OWNERS: Dean’s Shipping Company Limited, Nassau, Bahamas
FATE: still in service May 2014

NOTES: Listed as serving Marsh Harbour Abaco from Nassau – 
M/V Legacy, Marsh Harbour, Abaco, Phone: (242) 367-2653, (242) 394-0245, Fax: (242) 367 5642, 
deansshippingco@gmail.com / www.deanshipping.com

This is one of the few mailboat firms which publishes its schedule online, as follows:

INTER-ISLAND FREIGHT BOAT
NASSAU
TAKING FREIGHT: MONDAY & TUESDAY 8AM-4PM
SAILING: TUESDAY @ 7PM

MARSH HARBOUR, ABACO
ARRIVE: WEDNESDAY @ 8AM
FREIGHT DISCHARGE: WEDNESDAY @10AM

GUANA CAY
ARRIVE: THURSDAY @ 8AM

GREEN TURTLE CAY
ARRIVE: THURSDAY @ 11AM

MARSH HARBOUR, ABACO
TAKING FREIGHT WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY 8AM-4PM
SAILING: THURSDAY @ 7PM

NASSAU
ARRIVE: FRIDAY @ 7AM
FREIGHT DISCHARGE: FRIDAY & SATURDAY 9AM-4PM

Source: http://www.deanshipping.com/

This photo shows the M/V Legacy aground off North Rocks Abaco on 9 November 2011. The “Tribune” covered the story as did a local Abaco blog, from which this image and the below text were taken:
“The M/V Legacy is pushed up on rocks at the North Bar Channel in Abaco Bahamas 
M/V Legacy was pushed up on rocks as it tried  to navigate its way through the  North Bar Channel in Abaco Bahamas on November 9 2011.  The seas were in full Rage conditions with swells running at 20ft plus.  A USCG Helicopter was dispatched form Andros to rescue the Crew from the vessel”
Source: http://myabaco.net/mv-legacy-is-pushed-up-on-rocks-at-the-north-bar-channel-in-abaco-bahamas

This photo is from a wonderful blog about taking a voyage on the Legacy’s sister ship the Legend: http://intoanewhorizon.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.html
The blog is by Carol & Dave who own a trawler named “New Horizon”