MAILBOAT NAME: M/V Eastern Isle
PAST NAMES: none known
DIMENSIONS: not known
CONSTRUCTION: not known
YEAR BUILT: not known – before 1975
BUILDER: not known
EARLY CAREER: not known
BAHAMAS CAREER: a Bahamian mailboat in 1975
CAPTAINS: not known
OWNERS: not known
FATE: not known but was not trading in the 1980s so far as is known.
Sources: Article entitled “Take Slow Mailboat To Bahama Out Isles” in the Utica NY paper on March 7, 1975. The M/V Eastern Isle was listed as an active mailboat – no further details. However the author visited Potter’s Cay in person and relied upon a publication by the “Bahama Out Islands Association”.
Sources: Article entitled “Take Slow Mailboat To Bahama Out Isles” in the Utica NY paper on March 7, 1975. The M/V Eastern Isle was listed as an active mailboat – no further details. However the author visited Potter’s Cay in person and relied upon a publication by the “Bahama Out Islands Association”.