MAILBOAT NAME: M/V Bahama Land
PAST NAMES: M/V Black Creek until 1955
DIMENSIONS: 83-foot, 184-ton cargo ship, IMO # 7100835, USCG # 269196, built as a fishing vessel by Dantzler Navigation
CONSTRUCTION: steel
YEAR BUILT: 1955
BUILDER: Walker Marine – Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA for Dantzler Navigation
EARLY CAREER: began in US Gulf
BAHAMAS CAREER: trading as a mailboat in March 1975 per article cited below
CAPTAINS: not known
OWNERS: not known
FATE: not known
Sources: Article entitled “Take Slow Mailboat To Bahama Out Isles” in the Utica NY paper on March 7, 1975. The M/V Bahama Trader was listed as an active mailboat – no further details. US Coast Guard documentation pages online, www.maritime-connector.com, Croatia
Sources: Article entitled “Take Slow Mailboat To Bahama Out Isles” in the Utica NY paper on March 7, 1975. The M/V Bahama Trader was listed as an active mailboat – no further details. US Coast Guard documentation pages online, www.maritime-connector.com, Croatia