M/V Lady Kathreina serving Mangrove Cay, Fresh Creek Andros under Capt. King

by Eric Wiberg

Bow detail of M/V Lady Kathreina taken on April 22 2015 in the rain – this is the first time the author had come across this ship. Photo from author’s collection.

VESSEL NAME: M/V Lady Kathreina 
PAST NAMES: not known
DIMENSIONS: Ro/Ro passenger ship, 122.75′ long, 30.5′ wide, 276 gross tons, 337 DWT or cargo carrying capacity tons, Bahamas ID NP 6497,  IMO # 9369863, Bahamas flag
CONSTRUCTION: steel, by the Russell Portier Shipyard, Chauvin, Louisiana, USA
YEAR BUILT: 2005
EARLY CAREER: Not known but has been serving Bahamas since at least summer 2014
BAHAMAS CAREER: Arrives from Andros in Nassau at 5 PM on Mondays, is in Nassau Tuesdays loading cargo, departs Nassau’s Potter’s Cay Dock at 7 PM on Wednesdays for Mangrove Cay and Fresh Creek, Andros, where it trades over the weekend until the following Monday. 

CAPTAINS: According to the schedule her master is Captain King.
OWNER: not known
FATE: still actively sailing in the Bahamas
NOTES: Initially I believed that the Lady Kathreina replaced the sunken Lady D., however this appears not to be the case since the Kathreina was listed as serving Andros in the spring of 2014, before the Lady D. sank. 
It was impossible to get the 100% length of the ship in this frame, so see bow detail above.
Photo by Eric Wiberg, April 22, 2015.