MAILBOAT NAME: M/V Miss Juanita, M/V Miss Juanita II
PAST NAMES: none known
DIMENSIONS: 298 gross tons (200 net tons?), research/survey vessel, IMO 6411249, Bahamas flag
CONSTRUCTION: not known
YEAR BUILT: 1944
BUILDER: STADIUM BOAT WORKS – CLEVELAND OH, U.S.A.
EARLY CAREER: in the 1970s the M/V Miss Juanita was listed as a mailboat in service in Bahamas and M/V Miss Juanita II was on the paperwork of the Ministry of Transport (citation below).
BAHAMAS CAREER: believed to have supplied produce ports like Hatchet Bay, Governor’s Harbour, Rock Sound as was owned by the South Eleuthera Shipping Company
CAPTAINS: not known
OWNERS: South Eleuthera Shipping Company is said to have owned the M/V Miss Juanita
M/V Miss Juanita and M/V Miss Juanita II served south Eleuthera for South Eleuthera Shipping Company 1960s to 1980s
FATE: not known, but no longer trading in the late 1990s. Listed in an audit of the Mailboats done by a Jamaican firm in 1989 entitled “Agricultural Sector Services Marketing Component,” by Trevor Hamilton & Associates, Kingston (available online free through Google Books).
Source: http://mtaintranet.weebly.com/uploads/1/5/6/6/15660628/mailboats.pdf