MAILBOAT NAME: M/V Commonwealth
PAST NAMES: not known
DIMENSIONS: 96 tons
CONSTRUCTION: not known
YEAR BUILT: before 1989
BUILDER: not known
EARLY CAREER: not known
BAHAMAS CAREER: served as mailboat from Nassau to Crooked Island, Acklins, 1989
CAPTAINS: not known
OWNERS: not known
FATE: not known
NOTES: despite an extensive search the only other reference I can find to this boat is in Trevor Hamilton Associates’ Agricultural study “Agricultural Sector Services Marketing Component” for the Bahamas government in October 1989. Nowhere else in the ship directories or databases or image repositories can I find more about this enigmatic vessel. At the same time, Hamilton’s study is otherwise reliable and thorough and so we cannot ignore the reference altogether.
Source: http://books.google.es/books?id=YecqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA12&dq=Central+Eleuthera&hl=es&sa=X&ei=xEHQUuaKKczQ7AaR_ICoDw&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Central%20Eleuthera&f=false