M/V Miss BJ, formerly M/V Jeleta, mailboat served the Bahamas in 1980s – 1999, scuttled off Atoll Island

by Eric Wiberg

M/V Miss BJ, formerly M/V Jeleta at Nassau’s Prince George’s Dock where cruise ships, like the Carnival Cruise Lines ship in background, dock.

Source: http://www.photoship.co.uk/JAlbum%20Ships/Old%20Ships%20M/slides/Miss%20BJ-01.jpg

MAILBOAT NAME: M/V Miss BJ
PAST NAMES: M/V Sambre, M/V Jeleta
DIMENSIONS: 152′ long by 24.9′ wide by 8.5′ deep, 299 or 330 gross tons, 9 knots, 335 b.h.p., IMO # 6523133 
CONSTRUCTION: steel
YEAR BUILT: 1965
BUILDER: Apol A., Scheepswerf C.V.,Wirdum, Netherlands
EARLY CAREER: served European coastal ports and rivers from 1965 – 1973 under the ownership 

%image_alt%Kamp’s Scheepvaart En Handelsmaatschappij N.V., Groningen, Netherlands

BAHAMAS CAREER: served as mailboat from Nassau to unknown Bahama Islands  
CAPTAINS: not known
OWNERS: between 1990 and 1999 Trans-Bahama Shipping Limited, possibly also Mail & Ferry Services M.V.B.S. appears to have owned her when she was M/V Jeleta

FATE: Deliberately scuttled off Nassau on 22 June 1999. According to “What’s On Bahamas” is now a dive site and wreck off the coast of Atoll Island / Cay northeast of Nassau – http://www.whatsonbahamas.com/features.php?cmd=view&id=1084&pre=y

SOURCE: http://mtaintranet.weebly.com/uploads/1/5/6/6/15660628/mailboats.pdf


M/V Miss BJ in her original name (1965 – 1973) or M/V Sambre

Source: http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?218991