Database of over 200 mailboats in Bahamas 1800s to present

FINAL NAME	TYPE:	PAST NAME/S	STRICTLY MAIL	YEAR BUILT	WHERE BUILT	BY WHOM BUILT: YARD / DESIGNER / ISLAND	TONS (GT gross ton, GRT gross registered ton, NT net ton, SDWT summer dead wt tons DWT Dead	Construction	LOA/FEET	BEAM/FEET	DRAFT/FEET	PROPULSION/RIG	HORSEPOWER	SPEED (Knots)	FLAG / PORT OF REGISTERY	BAHAMAS OWNERS	PREVIOUS OWNERS: NAME / PORT / COUNTRY / FLAG	OWNERS AFTER BAHAMAS: PORT / COUNTRY / FLAG	ROUTE IN BAHAMAS	CAPTAIN/S	Fate	NOTES
Abilin	M/V		Y	1962	Duisburg, Germany	MAN GHH Dock & Schiffbau	430 GRT, 595 SDWT									Purchased by Bahamian owners in 1980s			Ports of Long Island until around 1998, when she is listed as “detained.”		Possibly for sale since August 2013. Capt. Calum Legett believes that the ship was sunk as or on a reef in 2007.
Air Pheasant	M/V	USS PC 1015 until 1942, then SC-1015, USCG Air Pheasant (WAVR-449) 1945 to 1948	Y	1942	Stamford Connecticut	Luders Marine	148	wood	110.8	17	6.5	2 X General Motors engines	1540	21		Sir George William Kelly Roberts (purchased in 1942). Holding co. Richard Campbell Ltd. Nassau		Sold to Erickson brothers for their Morton Salt Company to serve Inagua	Replaced the Monarch of Nassau on the San Salvador mailboat run. Also served Fortune Island/Long Cay, Crooked Island and Acklins in the 1950s and San Salvador in the 1970s	Anton Lockhart of Ragged Island (1964)	Scrapped in 1982	Sister ship to the Drake
Air Swift	M/V	USS SC-1340 (18 Sept. 1943 to 30 Oct., 1945), USCGC WAVR 471 Air Swift (30 Oct. 1945 to 19 Jan. 1948)	No	1943, Keel laid 7 Nov. 1942, launched 18 Sept. 1943, commissioned 4 Dec. 1943	Halesite, Long Island, New York, USA	Walter E. Abrams Shipyards, Thomas Knutson Shipbuilding Corp.	134		110’10”	17	6.5	2 diesel engines, 2 propellers		21		Sir George William Kelly Roberts purchased in 1948. Owned under holding company Richard Campbell Ltd. Nassau	After the US Navy and US Coast Guard put on the Nassau-Eleuthera mail run		Nassau – Eleuthera mail run before the Bahama Daybreak and past 1950		Jeff Albury wrote that the Air Swift was lost off Six Shilling Channel, between Current Island and Rose Island. Date and circumstances not known, but in 2014 he said his dad showed him wreckage when they were conching in the channel years ago.
Albertine Adoue	S/V			1894	Bath, Maine	Capt. William Augustus Roberts had the new vessel salvaged off Spanish Cay and built at Black Sound, Green Turtle Cay, Abaco		Made from scraps of a larger vessel	60 feet on deck							R. J. Anderson Farrington (1926), William Augustus Roberts.	Before the Bahamas Captain Nathan K. (or R.) Rich (wife Nellie), and Capt. Hubbard. In Bahamas Captain Hartley Roberts, Captain Osbourne Roberts, Captain Roland Roberts, sons of William Augustus Roberts.		Abaco from c.1894 to 1923, replaced by the M/V Priscilla in 1923, nearly lost in a hurricane Long Island Bahamas, 1926, whilst serving Inagua and other islands	Hartley Roberts, Osbourne Roberts, Roland Roberts	On Christmas Day 1930 went aground in North Carolina laden with liquor during the Prohibition and was lost	The vessel was named for the wife of prominent businessman Bertrand Adoue of Galveston, Texas. This smaller schooner was built from her timbers of a larger wreck, Green Turtle Cay Abaco
Alice Mabel	M/V			1923	Abaco	Marsh Harbour	47	Wood				Schooner, more than one mast, auxiliary motor				Sir George William Kelly Roberts (purchased in 1923). Owned under the holding company Richard Campbell Limited of Nassau			Not known which islands the vessel served, though it is safe to assume that Eleuthera was among its ports of call	John Carey	By 1940 the small ship was no longer listed in mercantile navy lists	Named after Sir George William Kelly Roberts’ daughter
Almeta Queen	M/V	Almeta Queen (motor) & Almeta (sail)	No	Almeta Queen by J. J. Taylor for “War Supply Ltd.” in Toronto. 17 June, 1942. Almeta 1946.	Marsh Harbour Abaco. Another place says: Toronto	Benjamin Roberts’ father	81 GT, 120 NT	Wood	107.5	10.3	18	Two Hall-Scott gasoline engines, two short masts	1300			Abaco Trading Company Limited, Nassau, NP – believed to be members of the Benjamin Roberts family in Marsh Harbour Abaco	Was lauched as the Royal Canadian Navy’s motor launch Q-080. Then a private yacht owned by H. B. Prior in Larchmont, NY		Believed by Eldwyth Roberts to have carried freight and possibly mail among the Bahamas as well as crawfish to Florida and freight to and from Cuba.	Sherwin Archer of Abaco	In August 2007 was sighted in aerial photographs rotting on the River Platte of Argentina	Was built for War Supply. Converted to sail in 1946
Anna Patricia		US Navy LCI							147							Imperial Lighthouse Service
Arena	S/V		No	Most likely 1890s to 1920s (during the sponging heyday). Another place says 1910		Likely at an Abaco shipyard		Wood	50. Another place says c.70										After sponging collapsed was one of last sailing mailboats Abaco-Nassau through the early 1950s	Captain Sherwin Archer of Abaco		Was a wind driven mail boat
Athelqueen																			To and from Hope Town to visiting ships		British tanker Athelqueen sunk by Italian submarine off Hope Town in 1942	The boat was a gift from officers, featured in a painting by renown Abaco artist Alton Lowe
Augusta Justina							19									William H. Hanna of Long Bay, Crooked Island (1868 )
Autogo	S/V			1952					75							Charles Sawyer, Marsh Harbour, Abaco			Freight and passengers on a per-trip basis Nassau – Abaco	Capt. Charles W. Sawyer	Retired from service about 1952 due to lack of profitability
Bahama Land	M/V	Black Creek until 1955		1955	Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA	Walker Marine	184	Steel	83								Dantzler Navigation. Began in US Gulf		Trading as a mailboat in March 1975			Was built as a fishing vessel
Bahama Mama / Alhucemas	M/V	Alhucemas		2009			3,520 DWT, 20,238 GRT	Steel	508	79				23	Spanish flag, to Canary Islands in Spain		Served the Balearic Islands, possibly Canary Islands, in the Med/Spain	Baleària Group of Spain	Replaced the smaller M/V Pinar del Rio, 244′ long, 86′ beam, catamaran on the Fort Lauderdale – Freeport Grand Bahama run in Feb. 2015
Bahama Trader	M/V			Before 1973				Wood	90							A.C.L. Limited, Nassau
Bahamas Celebration	M/V			1981			35,855 GT, 3,210 DWT	Steel	677	87.75					Bahamas (was St. Kitts Nevis until recently)	Celebration Cargo Line			Starting in about 2014 began offering service from Palm Beach to Freeport Grand Bahama
Bahamas Daybreak	M/V
Bahamas Daybreak II	M/V
Bahamas Daybreak III	M/V		No						110							Theophilus Sutart of North Eleuthera (Nassau “Tribune” of Feb. 10, 2006)			At latest check serves South Eleuthera (Governors Harbour, Hatchet Bay) leaving Mondays at 5pm, then North Eleuthera (Bluff, Spanish Wells, Harbour Island) leaving Nassau Wednesdays at 5pm	Quincy Sawyer and Ashok – a previous master. Moss, now serves with Bahamas Ferries	Still operating in April 2014
Bahamas Express	M/V	Not known but given it is 5 years old is presumed to have had same name		2010	Palatka, Florida	St. John’s Shipbuilders	487 GT, 146 NT, 850 DWT		192	38	7	2 X 3412 Caterpillar engines	1440	10	Panama			SEACOR Island Lines, Fort Lauderdale, Florida	16 islands in the Bahamas plus Turks & Caicos	Possibly Tony Powell
Bahamian (ex-Firebird, ex-Firequeen, ex-Candace)	M/V	Yacht Candace, 1882 – 188?, HMS Firequeen 188?-1920, Lighthouse Tender Firebird, 1920-193?	No	1882	Candace in Leith England		269 GT		167.8	23.6	12.3		500				From the 1880s to 1930 or so she served the Royal Navy as HMS Firequeen, the flagship of an admiral. Another place says: built as a yacht for a wealthy British “playboy”. raced in France and UK as yacht Candace, then given or sold to the Royal Navy and renamed the Firequeen. Served for 40 years or roughly 1890 to 1930, then assigned to the Bahamas as a lighthouse tender. Owbers were a British aristocrat (Candace), then the Royal Navy (Firequeen)	Charles Munro of Nassau	Assigned to the Imperial Lighthouse Service in the Bahamas as a lighthouse tender named Firebird. Then Was the inter-island freighter Bahamian for eight years	In 1935 the Firebird Captain was W. Moxeley. When she was the Bahamian, Charles Munro her owner, of Nassau was likely the captain. As the Firebird Cleveland Malone was radio officer.	Wrecked just west of Blue Lagoon Island (Salt Cay), north of Paradise Island (Hog Island), she is now known as the Mahoney Wreck in 25-45 feet of water.
Bailey Town	M/V			1946	Bimini		34 GT, 31 NT	Wood	46.5	14	6.5		140			Theodore R. Saunders
Barbara Ellen																Hannas from Acklins (1911)
Beluga	M/V	Liifeboat of the Norwegian tanker “O. A. Knudsen”	No	1939	Built in Germany along with the mother ship				30	7							Sailed worldwide in the chocks of the O A Knudsen carrying Allied cargoes of oil to beleaguered Britain until March 1942 when sunk off Bahamas. As lifeboat the Knutsen OAS tanker firm in Norway, then Capt. Bethel		From Cherokee Sound, Great Abaco to Crossing Rocks, to the south along the island’s windward eastern shore	Bethel (according to his son Patrick of Cherokee Sound)	March 1942 sunk off Bahamas	Made from a life boat
Bentley												Three-masted schooner										According to the Lawlors, as a young man George sailed on theBentley under his father before moving to Nassau at the age of 12.
Betty K.	M/V		No	1938			164									C Trevor Kelly (Betty K Line).	Florida to Nassau and possibly Abaco		The “motor boats,” as the Duchess [of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, wife of the Governor, formerly King Edward VIII] called them, offered sailings every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday in each direction between Nassau and Miami. Before the war, they had sailed from Miami at Noon and from Nassau at 2 pm but [during World War II in the early 1940s] they moved back and forth as cargo offered
Betty K. II	M/V	FP 391 and Sea Princess		1944 – delivered 30 November 1943	Los Angeles CA	United Concrete Pipe Co	579 and 750 SDWT								Bahamas	C Trevor Kelly (Betty K Line).	Florida to Nassau and possibly Abaco		From 1944 to 1989 she was named Betty K and flagged to and traded in the Bahamas. Miami FL-Nassau run.		Sailing as the “Lady K” in Columbia, South America, 1984-1991 – Broken up on March 31st 1991 according to grosstonnage.com	From 1980 to 1984 she was named FP 391 – not sure where she traded, flagged. In 1984 she was the Sea Princess.
Betty K. III	M/V			1944, delivered November 30, 1943	Barber, NJ, USA	New Jersey Shipbuilding	381 GT									C Trevor Kelly (Betty K Line).	Florida to Nassau and possibly Abaco		Miami FL-Nassau run 1944-1969		Became the Deborah K until at least 1983 (Deborah K listed in 1989)
Betty K. IV	M/V	FS 382, Jekyl AG 135, Jekyl, Jekyl AKL 6, Sea Princess II, Nilo		1944, delivered November 30, 1944	Whitestone, NY USA	Wheeler Shipbuilding	492 GT, 792 DWT									C Trevor Kelly (Betty K Line).	Florida to Nassau and possibly Abaco	Became the Honduran-flagged “Hope 1” under Hope Naviera, San Lorenzo in around 1988 and continues under that flag and management	Miami FL-Nassau run 1980 – 1988
Betty K. V	M/V	Toste Jarl, Andre Paul, Atlantis Mariner I, Laila, Laila 1, Ocean Blue		1970, delivered November 30, 1969	Kyrkesaeterora, Norway	Vaagen Verft Engineering	815 GT, 790 DWT									C Trevor Kelly (Betty K Line).			Miami FL-Nassau run 1980 – 1995		Became the Bolivian-flagged “Ocean Blue” after September 2010
Betty K. VI	M/V		No	1988 Another place says: 2004	Macvanska Mitrovica, Serbia	DTSG Sava Shipyard	1,457 GT, 1,070 DWT								Panama	Manager Betty K Line, Nassau, Bahamas (owners listed at Gull Shipping of Ottersoy, Norway, suggesting that the ship is being chartered into the Bahamas)	Florida to Nassau and possibly Abaco		Miami FL-Nassau run 2004 – present
Betty K. VII	M/V		No	1979	Haugesund Norway	Brodrene Lothe Flytedokken	2,028 GT, 1,250 DWT								Panama	C Trevor Kelly (Betty K Line).	Florida to Nassau and possibly Abaco		Miami FL-Nassau run 2006 – present		Still plying the route under ownership of the Betty K Line
Betty K. VIII	M/V		No	1984	Bremen, Germany	Lurssen Werft	2,191 GT, 1,492 DWT								Avatiu, Cook Islands	C Trevor Kelly (Betty K Line).	Florida to Nassau and possibly Abaco		Since May, 2014 she has been plying the cargo route between Miami, Nassau and Abaco		Still plying the route under ownership of the Betty K Line	Capable of carrying about 1,500 tons of cargo
Big Yard Express	M/V			Before 1989			102												Mangrove Cay Andros in 1989
Bimini Cat	M/V			1977			187 GT	Steel	121		6							Bimini Shipping, LLC, which has a dock facility on South River Drive, Miami	FLA to Andros (Driggs Hill), Cat Cay Bimini, Eleuthera, The Exumas, Great Harbour Cay Berry Islands, Harbour Island Eleuthera, Nassau, Bimini	Possibly Chris Knowles
Bimini Mack	M/V			1981	St. Augustine Florida	Saint Augustine Marine	207 GT, 350 SDWT	Steel	99.9							Bimini Mack Association, Alice Town, Bimini and Bimini Businessman’s Association Alice Town Bimini. something of a cooperative			Bimini as a mailboat and passenger carrier from Nassau
Bo Hengy	M/V	(PRESENT NAME: M/V Red Jet 5)	No	1999	New London, Connecticut	Pequot River Ship Works	209 GT, 74 NT	Aluminium	115	27.5	5	Catamaran hull, powered by MTU engines	4726		Bahamas	Bahamas Ferries Limited conveniently situated at Potter’s Cay Docks		Red Funnel Group of Southampton UK for service to Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK (May 2009)	Spanish Wells and Harbour Island’s Dunmore Town, North Eleuthera, daily.	Said to include Moss, formerly skipper of the M/V Bahamas Daybreak III
Bo Hengy II	M/V		No	2008			540 GT and capacity for 53 tons of cargo	Aluminium	135			Cummins engines		25	Bahamas				Spanish Wells and Harbour Island’s Dunmore Town, North Eleuthera	Said to include Moss, formerly skipper of the M/V Bahamas Daybreak III	Still in operation
Brontes	S/V			1921			42	Wood											San Salvador, Rum Cay and Exuma Cays up to July 1926	W. P. Syles and Burrows	Wrecked and sank on Exuma Cays near Highbourne Cay in a hurricane of late July 1926
Cape Express	M/V			2008	St. John’s Shipbuilding	St. John’s Shipbuilding	487 GT, 146 NT	Steel	190	38	7	3 X Caterpillar 3412 engines		11	Panama		Used to be owned by G&G Shipping	SEACOR Island Lines, Fort Lauderdale, Florida	16 islands / ports in Bahamas
Cape Hatteras	M/V		Yes	1950s	US			Wood	56			671 General Motors diesel engine				Nathaniel Bruce Taylor, Pirates Well Investments (purchased in 1962). Served Mayaguana from 1962 to 1968		Sold to fishermen in Spanish Wells, Eleuthera	Abraham’s Bay Mayaguana (1962 to 1968)	Nathaniel Bruce Taylor	Sold to crawfishermen in Spanish Wells, Eleuthera in 1968 and used for fishing thereafter, acc. Capt. Eddins Taylor
Capt. Gurth Dean	M/V			October 13^th 1999	Alabama	Rodriguez Coden										Ernest Alexander Dean (Jr.) of Sandy Point and Nassau			Southern Abaco. Her route takes her to Sandy Point, Moore’s Island, and Bullocks Harbour in the Berry Islands	John Dean	As of March 2014 laid up at Potter’s Cay, Nassau NP Bahamas for repairs/out of service
Captain C.	M/V						500. Can carry 600 tons of cargo	Steel	125										Trading to Ragged Island since the late 1980s. Served Black Point and other Exuma communities from the 1980s to the present, though the present vessel was clearly built in the last decade or so.	Recently skippered by Etienne Maycock, Sr.
Captain Dean	M/V			Begun in 1949 and not launched until February 1951 (it took 2 years to build without elecricity)	Sandy Point Abaco			Hand-hewn pine, and madeira and dogwood roots	30 feet at the keel, 40 feet on deck	15	5	At first had no engines but relied instead on the Trade Winds to propel her. Perkins diesel installed by Bill Minns of Nassau							First in the crawfish, then the mailboat trade from Nassau to the Berry Islands, Sweeting’s Cay (Grand Bahama), Mores Island and Sandy Point, Abaco	Ernest Dean and James Dean (once it reverted to crawfish)
Captain Dean II	M/V			1963	Dundas Town (Marsh Harbour) Abaco	Johny Albury and Walter Hatcher		Built entirely of native woods, 4 X 4 inch with two-inch planking	60	14	5	Two Perkins diesel engines							Nassau to Bullock’s Harbour Berry Islands, Sandy Point Abaco, Hard Bargain, Mores Island, and Sweetings Cay Grand Bahama	Sherwin Archer	In 1968 caught fire and sank between the Berry Islands and Abaco
Captain Dean III	M/V			1969	St. Augustine, Florida	John Petrudis		Wood	90	18	5	Caterpillar engine. wooden hull			St. Augustine, Florida	Ernest Alexander Dean and sons		In 1973 the vessel was sold to interests in Bimini to provide mail service there	Nassau to Bullock’s Harbour Berry Islands, Sandy Point Abaco, Hard Bargain, Mores Island, and Sweetings Cay Grand Bahama	Ernest Alexander Dean and sons	Sunk on the Mackey Shoal Buoy between Bimini and the Berry Islands (1974)
Captain Dean IV	M/V			1974	St. Augustine, Florida	St. Augustine Trawlers by Jerry Thompson		Wood		c.90′ on keel, c.18′ beam	5	A large Caterpillar diesel engine (same dimensions as the Captain Dean III)				Ernest Alexander Dean, Sandy Point Abaco			Mail and crawfish and conch cargo Nassau, Berry Islands, Abaco. Nassau – Bullock’s Harbour Berry Islands, Sandy Point Abaco, Mores Island, Sweetings Cay Grand Bahama	Ernest Alexander Dean and sons	c. 1977 ran aground intentionally in sinking condition on the banks near Sandy Point Abaco under the command of John Dean. The crew were rescued by US Coast Guard helicopter.
Captain Dean V	M/V			1978 – keel laid Nov. 30 1976, delivered Nov. 30, 1977	St. Augustine Florida, aka St. Augustine Marine	Jerry Thompson of St. Augustine Trawler Company, Inc		Steel	90			Single Caterpillar engine,				Ernest Dean, Sandy Point Abaco			Mail to and from Nassau, Abaco, Eleuthera, other islands	Ernest Dean, John Dean, Stanford Curry	Sank at the Frederick Street dock in Nassau in a fire that claimed the life of Captain Stanford Curry. Her hulk was sold to Haitian interests.
Captain Emmett																			Serving Salt Pond, Deadmans Cay and Seymours since 2010.
Captain Fox	M/V		Yes	Before 1998															From Nassau to Governors Harbour and Hatchet Bay in the late 1990s, leaving 1pm on Thursdays, taking six hours and costing $30 each way		By the 2000’s this vessel was also not listed as active, and her final fate is unknown.
Captain Johnson Ind.	M/V			Before 1973															From Nassau in August 1975
Captain Moxey	M/V			1998			370									Moxey Shipping			Abaco and the Berry Islands. Written in another place as: serves Kemps Bay, The Bluff, Long Bay Cays in Andros generally on Mondays	Boycel Moxey, Jr. and Kevin Moxey	Still operating in April 2014	named after Captain Hezron Lenox Moxey, a renown boat builder and sloop race. His children became captains in their own right. Bahamian Sailing Hall of Fame in 1990 and awarded the British Empire Medal in 1997.
Captain Roberts	M/V			1945	Dunmore Town, Harbour Island, Eleuthera	Earl and Gerald Johnson		Wood	111			Fairbanks Morse diesel motor				Sir George William Kelly Roberts (purchased in 1945). Owned under the holding company Richard Campbell Limited of Nassau			Nassau to unknown out islands with mail and freight		In October 1945, freakish winds destroyed a number of small boats on Harbour Island and the Captain Roberts was wrecked on its maiden voyage. Location of the Captain Roberts’ final resting place is near Great Isaac Light north of the Bimini Islands, suggesting she may have been on her way to or from Florida when wrecked
Caribbean Express I	M/V			2000	Palatka, Florida	Probably St. John’s Shipbuilders	499 GT, 156 NT, 457 DWT	Steel	190	38	7	2 X 3412 Caterpillar engines	1440		Panama			SEACOR Island Lines, Fort Lauderdale, Florida	16 islands in the Bahamas plus Turks & Caicos	Possibly Tony Powell
Caribbean Queen	M/V	None		1945	Nassau & Hog Island (Paradise Island) Bahamas	Symonette Shipyards	335 GRT		Over 120′ long			Single diesel motor & prop					Traded between Florida, the Bahamas and Caribbean – not necessarily a mailboat		Cargo freighter to and within the Bahamas from 1945 – 1961 when wrecked off Cay Sal on Jan 19th 1961 while motoring from Tampa to the DR in ballast.		Sank off Cay Sal Bahamas whilst voyaging Florida to the DR via Old Bahama Channel
Caribe Legend	M/V			1993			3,992GT, 5,335 DWT	Steel	333	60					Antigua & Barbuda	Tropical Shipping, Miami Florida, as of 2015 a division of Saltchuk Resources of Seattle, Washington			Nassau, NP Bahamas from Florida, as well as other Caribbean ports
Cat Island Princess	M/V																				It exploded in 1969, off Andros. Was rescued by AUTEC vessels.
Cavalier I	M/V	Cavalier I (so named 1983 – 2003). Presently Island Breeze (2008-present), before that Hydra I (2003-2008).	No	1983	Port Hawkesbury, Canada	Breton Industrial & Marine	371 GT, 600 DWT		172	36					Previous flags were Belize until 2006 and Panama 2006 – 2008			“Eleuthera” Coral Gables, Florida	Traded throughout the Bahamas as required by Cavalier Shipping, part of a Bahamian construction concern		Presently named “Island Breeze” and trading in Honduras – as of April 27 2014 the ship was in Miami, Florida
Central Andros Express							62												Mangrove Cay Andros in 1989
Champion II	M/V			1986/87 (Capt. Ernest Dean who commissioned her said launched Dec. 1986)	Saint Augustine Marine (aka St. Augustine Trawlers)	Saint Augustine Marine (aka St. Augustine Trawlers)	22 (it must be more than that)	Steel	75	22	6	Twin GM diesel engines							Nassau, Bullocks Harbour, Berry Islands, Hard Bargain Mores Island Abaco, Sandy Point, Abaco, back to Nassau	Ernest Alexander Dean	Still trading as of Aug. 2012, however listed as “dead ship” on www.grosstonnage.com	Named after the fishing vessel skippered by Capt. Ernest Dean’s father, Capt. James Alexander Dean, 1889-1966
Charm				1898	Acklins		11								Acklins	Philip Hannah						There are 2 othes by the same name: Charm, schooner, 1862, Bahamas, 10, R. H. Sawyer, Nassau and Charm, schooner, 1901, Harbour Island, 13, William Roberts, Harbour Island
Christine D.	M/V			Before 1975															Nassau to unknown Bahama Islands in August 1975 (as mailboat)
Christopher Dean	M/V			1980	Shimizu, Japan	Miho Shipyard	548 NT, 1,827 GT, 2,500 DWT	Steel	297	56	16		1950	13	Panama			King Maritime Group, Mr. (Christopher) Dean King CEO, Fort Pierce, Florida. (No relation to the Dean mailboat family of Sandy Point Abaco).	Brought freight and presumably passengers between ports in the US, Florida, Bahamas and Caribbean islands		Still operating but presently in Florida pending sale
Church Bay	M/V	Royal Navy minesweeper, HMS MMS 194		12 November 1942	Nassau and Hog Island	Symonette Shipyards										By 1952 was owned by the Three Bays Corporation		Owned by Oscar Johnson, MP for Cat Island, who denied ownership	Earlier serving Freeport, provided mail and passenger service to the island between 1932	Jenkins Roberts	Loss by fire in 1973
City of Nassau	SS	Laura	No	1885	Whiteinch, Glasgow Scotland	Aitken & Mansel	223 NT, 592 GT	Steel	207	26.8	13.2	Compound steam engine	180				London & Southwestern Railway Company, of London, UK		Harbour Island – Nassau, presumably other islands		Cargo only from 1922, said to have been broken up in 1937, but still listed in 1940. Also rumored to have been lost while boot-legging, but since that was in the 1920s this is not likely.
Clermont	M/V			c.1950s	Nassau			Wood	112			Twin General Motors engines				A crawfish distributing firm in Nassau, and chartered by Captain Ernest Alexander Dean, Sandy Point Abaco			Sandy Point & Mores Island Abaco & Bullock’s Harbour Bimini from Nassau 1962	Ernest Alexander Dean	Sank off Hole-in-the-Wall Light, Great Abaco, 1962
Commonwealth	M/V			Before 1989			96												Nassau to Crooked Island, Acklins, 1989 (as a mailboat)
Content S.	M/V	Percianna II	No	1920	Quincy, Massachusetts	J. M. Densmore boatyard		Wood	110							Carl Sawyer of R. W. Sawyer in Nassau (purchased in 1936). Was purchased with the name Content and added the “S” presumably for “Sawyer.”	For 16 years the yacht served various owners, from a socialite member of the New York Yacht Club named Percy Hance, then a Mr. Spaulding from inland Vermont, then she languished in Miami under the name Content.		Northern Bahamas to Miami. Was used to rescue survivors from Cross Harbor Abaco and alsao from Hope Town.	Stanley Weatherford of Green Turtle Cay, and Roland Roberts of Eleuthera. Grover Theis	Whilst serving as a banana boat in the West Indies she was rammed, sunk by the tug Foundation Aranmore off Cuba in 1946.	Was a motor yacht initially
Current Pride	M/V			1980			88 GT	Wood											Eleuthera, from Upper and Lower Bogue, The Bluff, Current Island, and Gregory Town, to Hatchet Bay/Alice Town	Patrick Neilly
Current Queen	M/V	Spanish Rose		1965		Not known, probably Spanish Wells boat builders		Wood	64							Purchased in 1965 by brothers Gurney Elon Pinder and Stephen Pinder to serve Spanish Wells		In 1977 the brothers sold the vessel, which had been running to and from Spanish Wells for 12 years, to interests in The Current settlement in Eleuthera, who renamed her the Current Queen	Trading to Ragged Island. 1965-1977 served Spanish Wells/Nassau, 1977 onward served The Current Eleuthera and Nassau		Final fate is unknown
Dart	S/V		No	1867	Harbour Island				35			Sporting two masts, the schooner was enlarged twice				John Saunders Harris of Eleuthera			Credited with providing the first regular inter-island mail and freight service, as opposed to those vessels shuttling mail from steam-ship depots on Fortune Island (Long Cay) and Crooked Island to Nassau	William James Harris, born 1848 on Harbour Island	Lost in a hurricane in 1922
Deborah K II				1965			348, 474 DWT	Steel											Primary link between Marsh Harbour at least and Nassau.
Delightful																Castell Rivas Hanna of Pompey Bay, Acklins (1935)
Delmar L. / Captain Delmor	M/V	Confused as the Captain Delmor in earlier research		c. 1970	St. Augustine Florida	St. Augustine Shipbuilding. Design by DeJong and Lebet, Inc		Steel	82	24	6.5	Powered by a single CM 8 V71 engine		9.5					North Andros between 1970 to the 1980s. Served Kemp’s Bay, Bluff, Long Bay Cay, Driggs Hill, and Congo Town as well as Nassau and sometimes Florida		Not known – was listed as a mailboat in 1975, does not appear in the 1980s
Drake	M/V	USS PC 541 for Patrol Craft, then USS SC 541 for Submarine Chaser, then USCGS Air Drake (WAVR 418)	No	1942	Benton Harbor Michigan	Robinson Marine Construction	136	Steel	110.9	17	6.5	Twin 1,540-bhp GM motors of 16-184A diesel variety, two propellers	1540	21		Sir George William Kelly Roberts (purchased in 1956 (one place written as 1942)). Owned under the holding company Richard Campbell Limited of Nassau	Built for the US Navy as USS PC 541, a patrol craft. After serving in the navy the vessel went to the US Coast Guard between 1945 and 1948 when it went to a New York fishing company until 1954 then the Crosland Fish Company, based in Key West as the Drake. Launched 11 April 1942 by US Navy, sold to US Coast Guard 31 October, 1945, sold by them on 2 February 1948		Nassau, Rum Cay, and San Salvador in the southeastern Bahamas	Not known in Bahamas, but in the US Navy by Lt. Junior Grade Oscar L. Otterson, US Naval Reserve	A vessel of similar dimensions but named “Bahamas Drake” is listed as having wrecked and sunk off the Exuma chain on the 29^thof December 1968. Probably this was the Drake.
Duchess of Topsail	M/V	Xanthoula, presently M/V Meyers Sesostris in Panama since 2013	No	1974			879 GT, 192 DWT	Steel	220.5	44.5						United Abaco Shipping Company Limited, Marsh Harbour, Abaco			Marsh Harbour Abaco to Florida up to May 2013			In some articles the M/V Duchess of Topsail was referred to as a sister ship to M/V Duke of Topsail, however the latter is clearly a much larger vessel and not identical.
Duke of Topsail	M/V	Duke of Norfolk		1972			2,262 GT, 1,450 DWT	Steel	237.5	46					San Lorenzo, Honduras	United Abaco Shipping Company, Limited, Marsh Harbour Abaco						According to the home site, the ship can carry palletized freight, 20′ containers, 40′ containers, and reefer, or refrigerated containers. The Ro/Ro ramp enables cars, trucks and boats as well as heavy equipment to be carried.
East Wind	M/V			May, 2007	Coden, Alabama, USA	Rodriguez Coden	498 GT, 395 DWT	Steel	177	38.25	7.25				Nassau	Bahamas Ferries, Nassau Bahamas, originally owned by Inter-Island Shipping			Simms, Long Island, probably Clarence Town as well
Eastern Isle	M/V		Yes	Before 1975																	Not known but was not trading in the 1980s so far as is known.
Ego	M/V			1943	Abaco		34 GT	Wood	52	14.8	6		105			Sir Roland Symonette. Symonette Shipyards Limited, Hog Island / Nassau			The Current from Nassau, hauling produce from Eleuthera.		Traded to Current for many years, meaning she must have run till the 1960s or 1970s. In fact on August 29, 1975 Ego was listed as an active mailboat in the Bahamas.
Eleuthera Express	M/V	Wischhafen and Treasure Trader until 1979		1962	Wlhelmahaven Germany	Spiekeroog	250 GT and 400 DWT									Junior Pinder		In the early 1980s she was sold to a group in Miami who renamed the vessel	Rock Sound, Governor’s Harbour, Spanish Wells, and Harbour Island	Junior Pinder	Sank between Haiti and Cuba in the late 1980s	It is possible that as the Treasure Trader (1978-1979) she traded in the Bahamas as well
Ella Warley	SS		No	1848	Baltimore, Maryland US		546 NT, 1042 GT	Wood	212.6	33.5	21		500			Edwin C. Adderley, Nassau				A. G. Swasey in 1862	Featured in the Mercantile Navy List 1870, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910 and 1915	One of the largest steam ships owned by Bahamians, to run weapons and supplies to the South during the American Civil War
Emerald Express	M/V			2001	St. John’s Shipbuilders	St. John’s Shipbuilders	494 GT, 148 NT, 850 DWT	Steel	192	38	7	2 X 3412 Caterpillar engines	1440		Panama			Island Lines, Fort Lauderdale, Florida	16 islands in the Bahamas plus Turks & Caicos
Emma Tuttle	S/V			1859	Le Havre, US		108									Augustus John Adderley (Nassau)				Burr in 1860, William Florence in 1863	Listed in the 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910, and 1915 Mercantile Navy List
Emmett Cephas	M/V			1988	St. Augustine, Florida USA	Saint Augustine Marine	142 GT									Munson Shipping Company of Nassau	Emmett Munroe		Ragged Island since 1988	Most likely Emmett Munroe himself, possibly Maycock as well	One source says she sank in 2001
Ena K.	M/V			1927	Harbour Island		116	Wood	116. Another place says 87.5	22.5	9	Listed as a schooner (later motor vessel). Described as an “auxiliary motor schooner” in the 1920s to 1940s			Nassau	Ena K. Company Limited, Nassau, Bahamas – Agents Albury & Co. of Nassau			Three weekly round trips from Miami to Nassau (no time for inter-island)	Charles A. Pettee	Still sailing 1968, supplanted by the Betty K. on the Miami-Nassau run
Endion	M/V		No	1898	Boston		61 GT		90.8. Another place says it was 103	14.1	8.6	Oil-burning engine, propelled by a Fairbanks Morse crude-burning engine				Harbour Island Steamship Company (Albert Sweeting, Director, value set at US$7,000), in 1921 to replace the Dart. Was purchased at a public auction.	Stint as a US Navy vessel (SP-707) in WWI. Served as USS Endion (SP-707) until stricken from the Navy List in October 1919 and sold			E. B. Sweeting, Albert Sweeting, William G. Harris	Plied the route until 1939 until replaced by the Lady Dundas – her final fate is unknown	It was a private yacht. Her first voyage with the mail contract was on 17 January 1922
Excite				1862	Acklins		4								Acklins	Conrad C. Hanna
Exuma Pride	M/V	Hjelmeland Fjord, HMS LCG (M) 192	Y	1944 (23 Oct.)	UK	Tees Side Bridge and Engine Works	199 British reg., 380 displacement	steel	150.3	22.1	6.8	Diesel, 2 X Paxmans	1000	11.75	Nassau, NP, Bahamas	Exuma Shipping & Transportation Company, Nassau, Bahamas	Norwegian 1949-1979: and UK 1944-1949. In 1946 sold by UK Navy to Leif Storhaug of London and Stavanger, in Southhampton. 1946: AS Jøsenfjorden Ruteselskap , Stavanger. 1976: Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskap , Stavanger.	Wrecked half submerged on Crab Cay, North shore, Georgetown, Great Exuma	Nassau – Georgetown Exuma, presumably other islands in Exumas	in Norway: Johan Kalheim and Johan Warland	By 1987 Lloyds scratched her from lists. Abandoned in 1990s and recorded in photos by yachtsmen etc. in Georgetown then on.
F. A. Marie	M/V			1915	Georgetown, Cayman Islands		59 GT, 57 NT	Wood	57.7	19.6	8		40			William D. Weech, Jr., Bimini
Fiesta Mail	M/V			2002	Tianjin, China	Xinhe Shipbuilding	2,485 GT, 710 DWT	Steel	228	50	11.5			12.5	Bahamas	Nathaniel Bruce Taylor (Taylor Corporation and Pirates Wells Investments’ fleet). The owning entity is MailBoat Company Ltd. of Nassau, which is run by Captain Elvin Taylor			Carries freight and passengers to and from Freeport, but it calls at Port Everglades Florida as well	Limas Taylor		Can carry up to 450 passengers between Nassau and the country’s second largest city, Freeport
Gary Roberts	M/V			There may have been two vessels of the name Gary Roberts, one built 1942 (as sources say her keel was laid on Jan. 7, 1940) and the other built 1957	Harbour Island	Earl and Gerald Johnson	59GT, 50 NT	Not known, presumably since she was built in Harbour Island, built of wood	66	16.5	7.2	Two masts but was primarily propelled by a 100 horsepower Cooper-Bessemen diesel motor	100		Bahamas	Sir George William Kelly Roberts (purchased in 1940). Owned under the holding company Richard Campbell Limited of Nassau			Plied between Nassau and Andros, including Lowe Sound between 1942 and 1978		Said to have been lost, sold or scrapped on October 5th, 1978.
Gleaner Express	M/V		Yes	Before 1973															Nassau to Ragged Island in February and March 1973 (as a mailboat)
Gloria																			Mangrove Cay Andros in 1989
Goldfinger	M/V			!940s				Wood	104							Imperial Lighthouse Service			Nassau to Andros in the 1970s (as a mailboat), before that was a light house tender under Capt. Everett Roberts of Abaco in the 1960s	Everett Roberts of Abaco	Sank in a storm on a run to Andros	A former lighthouse tender sold for service as a mailboat. Used to be a US Navy submarine chaser, name / designation not known
Grand Master	M/V			1983	St. Augustine Florida	San Sebastian Marine	214									Presumably members of the Brozogzog family, Nassau			Georgetown Great Exuma	Lenny H. and Lance Brozogzog, a father-son team, as well as Rolly Gray	Still operating in April 2014
Harley & Charley	M/V						91	Wood	100										Was proposed for service to South Andros in 1989, though at the time it was serving Eleuthera. It is not known whether it served Andros. In 1989 was serving Governor’s Harbour and Hatchet Bay Eleuthera		By around 2000 this vessel no longer showed up on ship lists and databases – fate unknown.
Hero	S/V			Estimated c.1900	Governor’s Harbour Eleuthera	Thomas Demeritte						Wooden two-masted schooner				Presumably Thomas Demeritte since he built her			Governor’s Harbour Eleuthera from Nassau to 1926 and beyond		Appears to have survived the hurricanes of 1926 and beyond. No longer in service since at least the early 2000’s	Rescued survivor Napoleon Rolle of the Mountain King off Crooked Island 1926
Inagua Trader							350		158							West India Transports, Limited of Matthew Town.						Construction equipment and personnel and possibly salt from the salt industry on the island which was run for many years by Morton Salt.
Iris Star	M/V			1935	Marsh Harbour, Abaco	Benjamin Roberts’ father	22 GT, 24 NT	Wood	50	15	6.5		40			Rupert W. Roberts, Marsh Harbour, Abaco			Mostly a crawfish boat which transported crawfish to Florida, but carried freight and possibly mails in the off season to locations such as Georgetown, Exuma.		Sunk off Nassau while carrying freight to Exuma
Island Breeze	M/V			1983			371 GT, 600 DWT	Steel	171.5	36.3	6				Honduras			Bimini Shipping, LLC, which has a dock facility on South River Drive, Miami	20 Bahama Islands from Florida to Andros (Driggs Hill), Cat Cay Bimini, Eleuthera, The Exumas, Great Harbour Cay Berry Islands, Harbour Island Eleuthera, Nassau, and both North and South Bimini	Possibly Chris Knowles
Island Link	M/V		No	2004 (July)	Caboolture, Australia	South Pacific Marine Construction	443GT, 200 DWT									Owners are listed as Munson Shipping of Bank Lane and managers as Bahamas Searoad of Potter’s Cay West. Another place says it is Emmett Munroe			Salt Pond, Deadman’s Cay Long Island, George Town, Exuma	Jed Munroe	Stiill operating in April 2014
Island Spirit	M/V			Before 1985															Nassau to unknown Bahama islands (as a mailboat)
Island Trader	M/V			Estimated c.1980				Steel	140						Bahamas	Presumably Gerald Stuart and Gregory Stuart, both listed			North Eleuthera c.2000 to c 2008	Possibly Gerald Stuart, Applicant for the vessel’s license in 2006
Isle of June	M/V			1926	Harbour Island, North Eleuthera	Edward Robert		Wood	83			Stteam propelled with auxiliary sail			Nassau, N.P., Bahamas	Kelly Lumber company of Nassau, N.P., Bahamas			Nassau with mail, passengers and freight from Miami up to 1938	Richard H. Sweeting, Frank Johnson, W. H. Wheeler (1926 – 1928 shot himself on board).	Taken off the Miami run in Sept. 1938, replaced by the Betty K. and the Monarch of Nassau. By 1940 she was not listed in the British Mercantile Navy List of Steamers.
Isoceles	S/V	Shamrock IV (? unconfirmed)					80	Wood								Potentially/originally Sir Thomas Lipton of Lipton Tea fame					Sunk in Nassau in July 1926 in a hurricane, ultimately broken up 1930
Ival	S/V			1938	Andros		22	Wood								Rupert E. Bowleg of Nicolls Town, Andros			Traded on charter to third parties within the Bahamas and at least as far as Cuba, probably the US
Jean Brilliant	M/V			1935	Newcastle, England UK	Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson yard	640 GT		169	29						Clarke Steamship Company	From Gulf of St. Lawrence ports and Newfoundland, Canada, 1935 ad 1942		Gulf of St. Lawrence ports and Newfoundland, Canada, 1935 ad 1942	William Tremblay
K.C.T.	M/V		No	2012					165			Powered by Mitsubishi engines rated 630 hp at 1,600 rpm	630			Thomas Hanna under either the Ro-Ro or Carib-USA brands			Fresh Creek and Central Andros, spending Wednesday to Saturday there and Sunday to Tuesday in Nassau. She has also served Acklins at $90 each way for a 26-hour voyage every ten days	Thomas (Tom) Hanna		Is a stern-loaded ro/ro vessel
Kate Sturrup	S/V			1890	Harbour Island		51									Henry William F. Sturrup				Arnold Ingraham	Forty years later left the Bahamas permanently for Jamaica.	Delivering members of the Third Bahamas Contingent on the first leg of their long journey to Europe to fight in the First World War
Lady Blanche	M/V						97												In the late 1980s the boat served the Exumas – perhaps longer		Not known but no longer in service
Lady Cordeaux	M/V		No	1922	Milford, Delaware, USA		275	Wood	115.9	28.6	10.3					The Bahamas Government, Nassau, N.P				Possibly Mr. J. O’Brien		Was a government tug
Lady D.	M/V			1992															Fresh Creek, Staniard Creek, Stafford Creek, Behring, Blanket Sound, and Browne Sound, Central Andros	Prince Munroe	Demise at Potter’s Cay Dock Nassau, summer, 2014, fall 2016 removed
Lady Dundas	M/V		No	Spring 1939	Dunmore Town, Harbour Island, Eleuthera – believed by Berlin T. & Harry Albury	Designed by Harbour Island resident, American ship designer Lawrence Huntington	97 NT, 115 GT, Capacity of 80 tons of freight		92 (also described as 82.7” long, perhaps on the waterline)	19.5	9.3	Two-spar rig (schooner?). Fairbanks-Morse engine of 150 hp	150	10		Harbour Island Steamship Company Limited, Harbour Island, Eleuthera	Replaced M/V Endion and S/V Dart, both of which Captain Harris had commanded. Serviced Dunmore Town, Harbour Island, North Eleuthera, from Nassau, but also plied the route to Cat Island and perhaps other islands, according to Benedict Thielen, December 1964	In the 1970s owned by the Lady Dundas Limited, of which Mr. Basil Butler was a shareholder in 1974 (see below)	Harbour Island with passengers and freight	William G. Harris and Roy William Smith, Esq.	In June 1974 was arrested by Haitian authorities on suspicion of smuggling	Namded for wife of Governor Sir Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas (1884–1956) Huntington’s descendant Lawrence Huntington from Long Island, NY became NYYC Commodore
Lady Eddina	M/V	Stonewall Jackson until 1995		1969	Moss Point Mississippi, USA	VT Halter Marine	270 GT	Steel	50	13	11					Owned by the Taylor family and operated by Pirates Well Investments.	Used to be owned by Offshore Logistics Services, Inc. Mostly in the US Gulf for offshore work.		Joined the Bahamas mailboat fleet in 1995. Served Bennett’s Harbour, Arthur’s Town, Orange Creek and Dumfries between 1995 and roughly 2000	Possibly E. B. Taylor	No longer sailing in Bahamas, listed as “dead ship” on www.grosstonnage.com
Lady Emerald	M/V			2003	Chauvin Louisiana		464 GT, 300DWT									G. M. Patton of Nassau			Rum Cay, San Salvador and Cat Island	Bill Williams	As of March 2014 laid up at Potter’s Cay, Nassau NP Bahamas for repairs/out of service
Lady Eula	M/V			c.1978	St. Augustine, Florida	Jerry Thompson of St. Augustine Trawler Company Inc	149	Wood	90			Single Caterpillar engine				Ernest Dean’s son John took over running her to Andros, Freeport and Cat Island.		Dean sold to interests in Cat Island	Freeport, Andros and North Cat Island between 1978 and 1981	John Dean, Ernest Dean	Navigational error, run aground on San Salvador and pummeled on the coast (c.1981)
Lady Francis (Frances)	M/V			1989	Houma, Louisiana		154												Rum Cay and Salvador as well as Black Point Exuma	Patton
Lady Kathreina	M/V			2005	Chauvin, Louisiana	Russell Portier Shipyard	276 GT, 337 DWT	Steel	122.75	30.5					Bahamas				Mangrove Cay and Fresh Creek, in South Andros	King	Still actively sailing in the Bahamas
Lady Margo II	M/V	Frankie Lynn		1971	Bayou La Batre, Alabama	Master Marine	127										Most likely a commercial fishing vessel in the US Gulf before the Bahamas. In the US her original owner was Walter R. Hicks		Listed in a travel guide as serving Andros in the mid-1990s		No longer in service May 2014
Lady Mathilda	M/V		Yes	1998	Chauvin, Louisiana	Russell Portier Shipyard		Steel	135 (earlier was 110)			Twin engines				Nathaniel Bruce Taylor – Pirates Well Investments Ltd. Nassau, and four other shareholders according to the Tribune March 18, 2008			Acklins, Crooked Island, Inagua and Mayaguana Matthew Town, in southern Bahamas (since 1998)	Nigel Davis	Dec 2010 minor fire while at Potter’s Cay Dock, Nassau, and on October 16, 2012 her crew fished an errant car from the harbor – its occupant was not found
Lady Moore									80												Sunk off Nichols Town, Andros as an artificial reef.	In 1976 the substitute mailboat to Rum Cay was named in one study as the Lady Moore
Lady Rosalind	M/V			1967	Lockport, Louisiana. Another article says it was built in Mississippi	Bollinger ship yards	233 GT. Another article says it is 391 GT. 158 NT	Steel	156	38	12.6					Nathaniel Bruce Taylor (purchased in 1987). Pirate’s Well Investments			Southern Bahamas, Abraham’s Bay Mayaguana (1987 to present). Serving North Andros since roughly 1990	Limas Taylor	1997 the vessel struck a rock and was damaged beyond repair
Lady Rosalind I	M/V	John F. Walker, Jr., G. W. Pierce, Fugro I, G. W. Pierce, Offshore Venture, OMS Maverick		1987	Chichasaw, Alabama	Halter Marine	391 GT									Nathaniel Bruce Taylor (purchased from sellers in Texas in 2002)			North Andros from Nassau	Willie Wilson and V. H. Black
Lady Rosalind II	M/V			2006	Chauvin, Louisiana	Portier Shipyard	498 GT		198	43						Pirates Well Investments and managed by E. B. Taylor			Morgans Bluff, North Andros, Nichols Town	Eddins Taylor and Gifford Johnson and V. H. Black	Still serving in April 2015
Lady Tasha / Abastash	M/V	Abastash	Yes	Before 1973															Serving Mayaguana, Crooked Island and Acklins Island		Believed to have sunk off Northern Potter’s Cay Dock, Nassau, in the 2000’s, Fall 2016 Bahamas Ferries cleanup raised and tied to Arawak Cay towed and sunk	Listed by Bahamas government August 1975
Legacy	M/V		No	2002	Coden, Alabama, USA	Rodriguez Coden	485 GT, 600 NT	steel	160	36					Bahamas	Dean’s Shipping Limited of Nassau			Listed as serving Marsh Harbour, Guana Cay, Green Turtle Cay and Nassau on a weekly basis	Ernest Dean Jr.
Legend II	M/V			September, 2006	Coden, Alabama, USA	Rodriguez Coden	488 GT, 545 DWT	Steel	181	38.2	6	3 X Caterpillar engines	1200	11	Bahamas (flagged to Panama)	Dean Shipping Company Limited, Nassau, Bahamas – most likely an offshoot of the Capt. Ernest Dean family which has owned dozens of vessels in the Bahamas since the 1940’s.		Bimini Shipping, LLC, which has a dock facility on South River Drive, Miami	Through Bimini Shipping offers service to 20 Bahama Islands from Florida to Andros (Driggs Hill), Cat Cay Bimini, Eleuthera, The Exumas, Great Harbour Cay Berry Islands, Harbour Island Eleuthera, Nassau, and both North and South Bimini	Possibly Chris Knowles	Still in service April 2015 but for sale
Liberty	M/V			Probably either 1943, 1941, or 1946 thereafter, based on years they built other boats		Earl & Gerald Johnson of Harbour Island			45										Mail route Nassau – Spanish Wells & Eleuthera – appears to have traded Andros, Fresh Creek in southern Andros per Eddie Spurgur and photo
Liberty M				Probably 1955 to 1965
Lisa J.	M/V	Ellen Soby from 1960 to 1973, then Runden until1999	Yes	1960	Marstal, Denmark	H. C. Christensen’s Staalskibvaerft	347	Steel	116. another places says it was 123.4	27.75	8.6	MaK diesel engine		12		Owned by North Andros Shipping Company Limited	Served the communities of Soby and Faaborg, Sejero and Havnsoe. From 1999 intended for the route from Naples Italy to Procida, in the Adriatic, sold to the North Andros Shipping Co. Ltd. sailed across the Atlantic in July	After 2005 she was sold on to Honduran owners	The route was from Nassau to North Andros, namely Nicholl’s Town, Mastic Point and Morgan’s Bluff, departing Wednesday evenings.			Began its career shuttling school children and others between the islands of Denmark in the 1960s.
Lisa J. II	M/V	Schokland		1952	Netherlands		298 GRT		143.5	24.5	10			8.5			Schokland from 1952 to 1985			Bowleg and Adderley
Madam Elizabeth Rolle	M/V			1954					70							John Newton, Lowe Sound, Andros			Andros freight, unconfirmed mail	John Newton
Mal Jack	M/V			1983			172 GRT									Jack Andrews of MalJack or Mal-Jack Construction		Towed Freeport to Roatan 2006 – in May 2006 sold to Mr. Murillo in Honduras	Kemp’s Bay, Long Bay Cays and the Bluff, South Andros		On April 27, 2001 was grounded in Andros or “Hatchet Bay”.
Mangrove Cay	M/V	Reads as Mangrove Cay Express II in one article							72							Reverend Herbert King			Andros between roughly 1988 and 1995. Also served Mangrove Cay and Lisbon Creek Andros
Marcella	M/V	Marcella I	No	1969	Saint Augustine, Florida			Wood	90							Nathaniel Bruce Taylor			Mayaguana and nearby Andros from Nassau during a long career which lasted nearly 20 years. Served Freeport from roughly 1985 to 2007	Nathaniel Bruce Taylor and his son Eddins Bruce Taylor	Burnt in Salt Pond, Long Island in 1986	Was a cargo boat.
Marcella II	M/V		Yes	1956	Busum, Germany	Busumer Schiffswerft	298 GT	Steel	170							Nathaniel Bruce Taylor (purchased in 1987)			Traded coastwise from Germany 1956-1980s when she served Freeport from Nassau	Eddins Taylor	Badly damaged in 1988 in a storm and became an artificial reef off Long Island	Was the first steel-hulled mail boat owned by black Bahamians
Marcella III	M/V	Jade	No	June 2, 1959	Neue Jadewerft, Wilhelmshaven, Germany		364 GT, 480 DWT		130		9.2			8.5		Purchased by the Taylor family in Germany in 1981		Sold to Haitian buyers in 2007. renamed Miss Eva, sold her to Bolivian interests c.2009 and motored south to that country, on the southeast coast of South America, where she is believed to be trading as the Michelda.	Freeport from Nassau for many years, leaving Wednesdays at 4 pm. (2007-2009)	Limas and Eddins Taylor		Has been trading in Europe, the Bahamas and South America for 57 years under different names, and is believed to be still sailing today – in Bolivia
Margaret Rose	S/V			1951	Nassau			Wood	45			Sloop-rigged and had a Perkins diesel engine				Ernest Dean of Abaco c.1953			Sandy Point & Mores Island Abaco & Bimini from Nassau	Ernest Alexander Dean	Sold and replaced by the Clermont
Mary				1866	Acklins		14								Acklins	William H. Hanna						There have been 18 other boats with the same name
Mary Jane	S/V		No	1853			41	Wood								Owned by a Harbour Islander named John Cleare			In the 1860s: carried the mail and passengers from Dunmore Town and Spanish Wells to Nassau. She held the mail, cargo and passenger route to Harbour Island, with stops in Spanish Wells, 1870 Dart replaced her		Broken up in Nassau in 1900	Was financed by a joint stock company, with half the funds raised in Nassau and the other half in Harbour Island
Mia Dean	M/V						146									Believed to be the Dean family of Sandy Point, Great Abaco			Has been serving southern Long Island, Cat Island, and including Clarence Town since about 1990		Still operating in April 2014
Minnie Gordon	S/V			1861	Pictou, on the River John, Nova Scotia, Canada		322	Wood								Bahamian Silvanus Bethel (from 23 March, 1865 to at least 1915)	Peter Crerar			Thomas Archibald MacKenzie (pre-1870), Miligorm (Meligerm?) in 1882	Listed in the 1870, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910, and 1915 Mercantile Navy Lists
Miranda	M/V	Geulborg (1966 – 1977), Paradise Express (1996 – 1999), El Compa (1999 – 1999), Gilbert Sea (1999 – 2002)		1966	Delfzijl, Netherlands	Geulborg by Sander Gebroeders	399 GT	Steel	176 Another palce says 76!!	28.5	9.2	Single Caterpillar engine, single shaft and single propeller.	450	9.5		Nathaniel Bruce Taylor (purchased in 1977)	Wagenborg Shipping in Netherlands, then after the Taylors from 1977 to 1996 the Cia Naviera Nautilus S De Rl, San Lorenzo of Honduras, then the Gilbert Shipping Corporation of San Lorenzo, Honduras.	1996 the Taylors sold her to Haitian owners and renamed the Paradise Express until 1999, when a Honduran company purchased her, with the name El Compa. From 1999 she was known as the Gilbert Sea, owned by the Gilbert Shipping Corp. of San Lorenzo, Honduras.	Traded from Miami to Turks & Caicos and Exumas as well as Long Island	Robert “Bob” Garroway from St. Vincent. Rolly Gray.	In 2002 the ship was towed to sea 1.5 miles from Palm Beach Inlet and sunk as an artificial reef after being impounded in the Miami River as a drug smuggling ship or lost off Hope Town on April 6th, 1975″.	The name “Guelborg” is consistent with the narrative given by owner Capt. Eddins Bruce Taylor, who said she was built around 1966 in Holland and that her original name had the word “gold” in it.
Miss Andros	M/V		twin screw	Launch was at Nichols Town North Andros c. 1972	Andros				140						Andros, 1964						Never passed survey in Nassau for service, broken up or rotted.
Miss Beverley																			1975, was serving Andros as a mailboat.
Miss BJ	M/V	Sambre, Jeleta		1965	Wirdum, Netherlands	Apol A., Scheepswerf C.V., shipyard	330 GT	Steel	152	24.9	8.5		335	9		Between 1990 and 1999 was owned by Trans-Bahama Shipping Ltd., possibly also Mail & Ferry Services M.V.B.S	Served European coastal ports and rivers from 1965 – 1973 under the ownership of Kamp’s Scheepvaart En Handelsmaatschappij, N.V., of Groningen, Netherlands		Nassau to unknown Bahama Islands (as mailboat)		After lying unclaimed for a time at Prince George Dock, the ship was deliberately scuttled off Nassau on 22 June 1999. a dive site off the coast of Atoll Cay NE of Nassau
Miss Juanita	M/V		Yes	1944	CLEVELAND OH, U.S.A.	STADIUM BOAT WORKS	298 GT (200 NT?)								Bahamas	South Eleuthera Shipping Company	In the 1970s 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).		Believed to have supplied produce ports like Hatchet Bay, Governor’s Harbour, Rock Sound		Not known, but no longer trading in the late 1990	Research/survey vessel
Miz Desa / Mia Desa	M/V			Before 1973															Nassau to Abaco ports of Marsh Harbour,Treasure Cay, Green Turtle Cay, Hope Town (as mailboat)		Not known however no longer trading in since 2012 or so
Monarch of Nassau	M/V			1930	Cheshire, England											Sold in 1951 to Carl Sawyer	Purchased by the Monarch Line, owned by Sir George Roberts		Cat Island in the 1930s and 40s, and is credited with taking Father Jerome Hawes, the Hermit of Cat Island, to his new home			. In 1942 she was serving San Salvador when she rescued 30 officers and men from the Greek ship Cygnet, which had been torpedoed by the Italian submarine Enrico Tazzoli within sight of Dixon Hill Light.
Mountain King	S/V			Before 1926	Port Howe, Cat Island	Reverend James Smith		Wood								Rev. James Smith of Port Howe, Cat Island			Cat Island from Nassau up to end July 1926	Elliston Bain & First Mate. Relief captain Napoleon Rolle	Lost in a hurricane in 1926 off Little San Salvador because captains disagreed over seeking shelter from the storm
MSC Bahamas	M/V			1998			4,107 GT, 5,183 DWT	Steel	332	53.5					Ireland (Cork)		Believed to be shuttling cargo to/fro Bahamas for MSC since 1998 when built. Is the third MSC ship of this name since the 1991	Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) Italy	Shuttles containers from Freeport to Lauderdale & Nassau			MSC named as is dedicated to moving cargo from MSC’s huge hub in Freeport to and from Florida and Nassau.
Munamar	SS			1915	Sparrow’s Point, Maryland aka Maryland Steel in Baltimore MD	Bethlehem Steel	3,477 GRT, 7,500 tons displacement		370	45	30					Munson Steamship Line			Nassau and possibly other islands like Long Cay with international mail		Sold in the early 1930’s when traffic declined following the depression
Munargo	SS		No	1921	New York Shipbuilding Corporation	New York Shipbuilding Corporation										Munson Steamship Line			Served Nassau and possibly other islands like Long Cay with international mail		Sold in 1938 due Great Depression. Converted to a troop carrier then a hospital ship for US Army
Nassau Moonglow	M/V			Before 1973				Believed to have been wooden	72							Spanish Wells Shipping Company, Spanish Wells Eleuthera	Not known, perhaps the fishing industry in the US Gulf or US East coast		Harbour Island and Spanish Wells Eleuthera in March 1975			Was a shrimper (fishing vessel) hull
Nassau Packet																			Sailed a number of times during 1799 between Nassau and Charleston
Nassauvian	SS	J. W. Somerville		1919	Pocomoke City, Maine, USA		632 GT, 347 NT		160.2	35.2	12.7		400			Allan Line, owned by Allan U. Johnson, Nassau, agents Albury & Co. Nassau and Miami			From at least 1923 connected Miami with Nassau on a regular run
Nay Dean	M/V						91	Wood								Dean family of Sandy Point (Captain Ernest Alexander Dean)			Northern Long Island since 1985	Ernest Alexander Dean
New Day	M/V	Sea Salvor from 1943 to 1972		1943	Neponset Massachusetts, USA	George Lawley & Son	388		164							Freedom Shipping Company of Nassau	Built as a landing craft for the US Navy, original name LCS(L) 120 – 130		Acklins and Crooked Island as a mailboat		License up for renewal in 1973 so presumably continued trading into the mid-late 1970s.	Cargo ship may have been a salvage tug before (from name)
New G.	M/V		No	2015			486 GT, 145 NT, 587 DWT	Steel	178 Another place says 155	40	10′ (aft) to 6.6′ deep forward			10.5	Panama	Thomas Hanna. Officially it is the Consolidated Marine Group located in the United Building, Soldier Road, Nassau			It is a relief ship on other routes. Also serves the New G. serves North and South Cat Island, arriving in Nassau Monday, taking freight Tuesday, and leaving Wednesday evenings.	Thomas (Tom) Hanna	Still in operation	It is a landing craft type Ro-Ro vessel
New Northland	SS			1926	Newcastle upon Tyne	Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd	3445. 2,000 DWT		302	47	17 (24.5′ depth)						Fom Gulf of St. Lawrence ports and Newfoundland, Canada up to 1927 then from 1931 to 1934. Not sure if she returned to Canada after 1939, presumably. She was laid up for at least 2 years between southern deployments		Miami-Nassau run 1927-1931, and then 1935-1939
Noel Roberts	M/V	BA 2		1943	Symonette Shipyards	Earl & Gerald Johnson of Harbour I (brothers – built at least 4 other boats, inc LIBERTY)	180 GT, 141 NT	Wood	115	23.3	11.3		180		Launch: Harbour Island in 1943. – Government Dock in Dunmore Town	Noel Roberts Limited, Nassau, N.P., Bahamas. Sir George William Kelly Roberts (purchased in 1943). Owned under the holding company Richard Campbell Limited of Nassau	Built for the Royal Navy in WWII	1948 she is recorded by the Kingston Gleaner as having carried a load of lumber as far as Kingston Jamaica. In 1957 she was on the British mercantile marine lists, and was recorded as still trading in 1961	Likely serviced Dunmore Town, Harbour Island, North Eleuthera		Recorded as still trading in 1961. The vessel’s final disposition is not known. According to Jeff Albury her remains lie in shallow water off Six Shilling Channel, between Rose Island and The Current.	Served at least 18 years, as is listed in the 1957. named after George and Freda Roberts’ son Noel, who went on to represent Harbour Island in parliament between 1972 and 1977, and then from 1987 to 1997
Nonesuch	S/V		No	1880	Abaco		21	Wood				Had two masts				From 1933 to its demise by 1940 owned by Mrs. Mary June Black, Mayaguana. From 1880 – 1900 owned by Mr. Benjamin W. Roberts of Abaco. From 1910 – 1915 owned by Mr. William Henry Edgecombe of Andros. From 1920 – 1933 owned by Mr. James R. C. Young of Nassau	Benjamin W. Roberts of Abaco	Sold to James R. C. Young of Nassau in 1920	Carry freight and passengers between Nassau and Abrahams Bay and Pirates Well, Mayaguana	Eddins Bruce Taylor. Fed. Black, 1933 to 1940
North Cat Island Special									80										Bennet’s Harbour and other Cat Island ports from the mid-1980s to the 2000s.			A new vessel named North Cat Island Special II (built 2001) which is believed to have taken over the route.
North Gaspe	M/V			1938	Lauzon, P.Q., Canada	Davie, George T. Shipbuilding & Repair, Ltd.	888		180	35	18	Steel hull, propeller					From Gulf of St. Lawrence ports and Newfoundland, Canada	West India Fruit & Steamship Company, Canada, part of Clarke Steamship	West Palm Beach FL-Nassau run 1946-1948	During WWII at least, Alphonse Bégin	Sold to the Ministry of Tourism, Ecuador in 1972 – probably in the Galapagos, new name Iguana
North Shore		HMCS Lindsay (Royal Canadian Navy)		1943		Midlands Shipyards Limited, Ontario, rebuilt in the UK 1946	368 DWT		203	33		Four-cylinder triple-expansion engine	2750				Clarke Steamship Company (Canada)		West Palm Beach FL-Nassau run 1946-1948	Alphonse Bégin, who also served on the North Gaspe
Offshore	M/V	A vessel or firm at the same time is listed as “Offshore Mail Services”		Before 1973					76			Twin-engine, twin-screw				Eleuthera Limited, Nassau NP			Nassau in March 1975 (as a mailboat)
Old Horseye	M/V	Patricia K		1930	Berlin Albury at Dunmore Town, Harbour Island		100 GT		87				165			After 1940 John Percy Sweeting of Harbour Island	Kelly’s Lumber Yard, and Allan H. Kelly named it for his daughter Patricia
Patricia K. (later Old Horseye)	M/V	Patricia K		1930	Dunmore Town, Harbour Island	T. Berlin Albury	97 GT	Wood	74	19	6.6	A mix of both sail and engine power. Powered by a “Jimmy 6.71 engine.”	165		British	Percy Sweeting	Originally owned by Kelly’s Lumber Yard, Kelly’s Limited, as it was commissioned by Allan H. Kelly and named after his daughter Patricia		Plied mostly between Nassau and Miami, also touching Abaco, Eleuthera.	Percy Sweeting in 1956
Pelagic Express	M/V	Till			Bangladesh	Ananda Shipyard & Slipways	1,867 GT, 885 NT, 2,339 DWT		266	44	20	1 MAN diesel	2306	12				SEACOR Island Lines, Fort Lauderdale, Florida,	16 islands in the Bahamas plus Turks & Caicos
Peloris	M/V		No	1945	Bimini		56 GT, 42 NT	Wood	58.5	19.5	8		110			William D. Weech, Jr., Bimini
Priscilla	M/V		Yes	1921	Likely in Abaco or Harbour Island			Steel	100			Propelled by a 115-horsepower Fairbanks Morse diesel engine	115						Abaco from 1923 to after 1932	Archer. Son Bobby was the relief captain. Then Hartley Roberts	August 1932 destroyed by a hurricane	Rumored to have been a racing sail yacht
Richard Campbell	M/V			1937	Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas		89	Wood – sailing sloop with an auxiliary motor	85.6	16.3	8	Single-masted sailing sloop with an auxiliary motor				Richard Campbell, Limited, Nassau, N.P. (for G. W. K. Roberts Co. Nassau). Sir George William Kelly Roberts (purchased in 1937).			Abaco and Miami from Nassau from 1937 to at least 1947	Russell	In August 1932 the vessel was “blown ashore and destroyed” during a hurricane
RMS Conway	SS		No	1846 (refit and re-engined in 1862)	Northfleet	William Pitcher	895 GT	Wood	215	35	16	Two paddle wheels. Oscillating 2-cyl engines	260				West India Mail Company – dedicated to the West Indies mail service 1846-1867, or at least 1852-1867 wrecked		Nassau and Inagua with international mail from UK, Jamaica, US		Destroyed in St. Thomas US Virgin Islands in October 1867, scrapped in 1870.
RMS Derwent	SS		No	1849			794 GRT	Wood				Paddle wheel propulsion (steam)					West India Mail Company – Dedicated to the West Indies mail service 1849-1852		Nassau and Inagua with international mail from New York, UK, Jamaica, US, and Portugal
RMS Esk	SS			1849			232 GRT					Wooden hull, screw propeller propulsion (steam)					West India Mail Company – Dedicated to the West Indies mail service 1849-1852		Nassau and Inagua with international mail from UK, Jamaica, US
Samana	M/V			1940		Austin Levy, owner of the Hatchet Bay plantations, an American from Bistrol Rhode Island who invested heavily in the Bahamas	100	Wood	96	17	9	6-cylinder Cooper-Bessemer diesel	425			Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera Ltd., Bahamas, presumably to export Bahamian produce to US.		On October 22, 1942 the US Navy purchased SAMANA from Hatchet Bay Eleuthera, Ltd. Just 3 days later they placed the ship in service as the YAG-28″to transport cargo to outlying Caribbean bases.” 13 August 1945 she was struck from Navy register and sold back to the Bahamas c/o Mr. Mervin Ferguson in Miami on 25 March 1946. flagged outside of the US after WWII.	Mail route Nassau – Spanish Wells & Eleuthera
San Salvador Express / Johnette Walker	M/V	Johnette Walker, Innocent Express, Pack One		1953	Pascagoula, Mississippi	F. B. Walker & Sons, Hull # 146	136 GT (also listed as 209 GT), 100 NT	Steel	111′ long (also listed as 106.2′)	22.2	9.2	Tug design			Bahamas (now Panama flag)		Originally a US Gulf tug, then M/V San Salvador Express mailboat serving that island, then in 1975 the Johnette Walker (her original name), then sold as the Innocent Express and finally her present status as Panama-flagged Pack One.	Sold to Panama as the Pack One, where she still trades	San Salvador, southeastern Bahamas, as the San Salvador Express and by 1975 as the Johnette Walker.	Roy Oral Lockhart from roughly 1972 to 1975.	Still trading in Panama as M/V Pack One. 1979 law case alleging Johnette Walker was in the drug trade, pretending to be the M/V Superfly II of Panama
Sea Bird				1898	Acklins		12								Acklins	Thomas Benjamin Hanna						There has been one other with the same name: Sea Bird, schooner, 1897, Abaco, 17, James Edward Roberts, Hope Town, Abaco
Sea Express II	M/V			2006	St. Augustine, Florida	St. Augustine Marine, Inc	487 GT, 146 NT, 850 DWT	Steel	192	38	7	2 X 3412 Caterpillar engines	1440	10	Panama			SEACOR Island Lines, Fort Lauderdale, Florida	16 islands in the Bahamas plus Turks & Caicos
Sea Hauler	M/V		No					Steel	98							Allan Russell			Cat Island between 1989 and 2011. Also served Smith’s Bay, Old Bight and New Bight, in south Cat Island	Allan Russell	In 2003 this vessel was involved in a fatal collision with the United Star
Sea Spirit II (ex-United Spirit)	M/V	Russel Portier (1999-Sept. 2007), United Spirit (Sep. 2007- Aug. 2008), then Sea Spirit Aug. 2008 – present		1999	Chauvin Louisiana	Russell Portier Shipyard	498 GT, 750 DWT	Steel								Ro-Ro Company, Captain Thomas Hanna, Nassau Bahamas			Acklins, Long Cay and southern Long Island, leaving Nassau Tuesdays afternoon		Grounded and abandoned off Long Island around 2011	2011: Hanna was chased by a number of creditors and removed his vessel from the Bahamas Maritime Authority Registry in December 2007, changing ownership from Carib-USA to Ro-Ro Company Ltd.
Sealink	M/V		No	2000			273 GT, 350 DWT	Aluminium	137	49		Daewoo engines		18		Bahamas Ferries, Potter’s Cay, Nassau, NP, Bahamas			North Eleuthera, Governor’s Harbour in central Eleuthera, Freeport, Andros, Exuma, Long Island and South Abaco		Still in operation
Seawind	M/V		No	2003			485 GT, 185 DWT		147	49		Daewoo engines		18		Bahamas Ferries, Potter’s Cay, Nassau, NP, Bahamas			North Eleuthera, Governor’s Harbour in central Eleuthera, Freeport, Andros, Exuma, Long Island and South Abaco		Still in operation
Sherice M.	M/V		No						126							Emmett Munroe			Bimini since roughly 1995 and continues to operate today. Serves Salt Pond, Deadmans Cay and Seymours Long Island, departing Nassau on Mondays	Shawn Munro and co-captain is Emmett Munroe	Stiill operating in April 2014	Is a motor freighter
South Andros Express	M/V		Before 1975																Nassau to South Andros during mid-1970s (as mailboat )		AUTEC personnel started a FaceBook page
South Andros Queen	M/V		Before 1975																Nassau to South Andros during mid-1970s (as mailboat )
Spanish Rose II	M/V		No	1977	Spanish Wells			Wood	75							Brothers Captains Gurney Elon and Stephen Pinder			Ferried frozen fish and produce and mail and passengers Spanish Wells-Nassau	Brothers Gurney Elon Pinder and Stephen Pinder	In 1997, whilst en route between Nassau and Spanish Wells in daytime the vessel sank	Replaced first Spanish Rose (from 1965), running frozen crawfish tails to Nassau so that they could be shipped to the US market in Florida
Stadt Rotenburg	M/V			2003			9,528 GT, 12,864 DWT	Steel	483.5	75					Antigua & Barbuda	Tropical Shipping, Miami Florida, as of 2015 a division of Saltchuk Resources of Seattle, Washington			Nassau, NP Bahamas from Florida
Staniel Cay Express	F/V								76			Diesel motor				Rolly Gray			Exuma Cays, Staniel Cay in particular, and apparently the Abacos as well. 1970s to 1975	Rolly Gray	Sunk off the northeast coast of Abaco near Hope Town on the 6th of April 1975 per
Stede Bonnet	M/V	Royal Navy-issue: MM 194	Yes	4th June 1942	Nassau and Hog Island (Paradise Island)	Symonette Shipyards	225		119			Single diesel engine	12 Knots				They were launched in a ceremony by the Duke of Windsor. Intended for service in Singapore, which fell to the Japanese before they were commissioned			Archer. Son Bobby was the relief captain. Lloyd Talmadge Albury of Man-O-War Cay		Motorized mail boat
Trans Cargo II	M/V			1986	Singapore	Mickon Shipbuilder	1,015 GRT, 1,400 DWT	Steel	191	46		Twin engines and twin propellers for redundant reliability			Bahamas	Nathaniel Bruce Taylor (purchased in 1998). Pirate’s Well Investments, which is part of the Taylor Corporation presently held by brothers Capt. Eddins Taylor, Mr. Elvin Taylor and Capt. Limos Taylor	Egyptian owners		Initially the ship had contracts for the BEC but after they failed it was put to use carrying aggregate and sand from Freeport to Bimini, among other jobs	David Hyde of Honduras
Transport Express	M/V	UAL Transporter, owned by Universal Africa Lines				Caterpillar Inc.	1,092 GT, 397 NT, 1,297 DWT		208	46	9				Panama		Parts of Africa with Universal Africa Lines	SEACOR Island Lines, Fort Lauderdale, Florida	16 islands in the Bahamas plus Turks & Caico
Treasure Lady	M/V	Tar Heel	Yes	1981	Morgan City, Louisian	Scully Brothers Boat Builders	320 GT									Sold to Bahamian operators in 1997		Sold out of the Bahamas presumably to Honduras (2012)	Between 1997 and 2012 served San Salvador and Rum Cay as a mailboat
Tropic Express	M/V			2011	China	Qingdao		Steel	350					12.5	Panama	Tropical Shipping, Miami Florida, as of 2015 a division of Saltchuk Resources of Seattle, Washington			Palm Beach Florida to Nassau, Bahamas	Delivery skipper was Ramil Infante
Tropic Jade	M/V			1978				Steel	276					15.5	St. Vincent	Tropical Shipping, Miami Florida, as of 2015 a division of Saltchuk Resources of Seattle, Washington			Florida to Bahamas and Turks & Caicos
Tropic Mist	M/V			1983				Steel	276					15.5	St. Vincent	Tropical Shipping, Miami Florida, as of 2015 a division of Saltchuk Resources of Seattle, Washington			Freeport, various Bahamas & Turks & Caicos islands from Florida	Tony Powell
Tropic Opal	M/V			1979			1,651 GT, 2,334 DWT	Steel	260					12		Tropical Shipping, Miami Florida, as of 2015 a division of Saltchuk Resources of Seattle, Washington			Abaco from Florida	Chris Knowles
Tropic Sun	M/V			1993			6,536 GT, 8,200 DWT	Steel	363					15	St. Vincent	Tropical Shipping, Miami Florida, as of 2015 a division of Saltchuk Resources of Seattle, Washington			Nassau, NP, Bahamas from Florida	Tony Powell
Tropical Trader	M/V			1950	Turks & Caicos
United Spirit	M/V
United Star	M/V		No	1996	Chauvin, Louisiana	Built either by Chauvin Shipbuilding or Portier Shipyard	417 GT, 500 DWT	Steel	178. Another place it says 170	36.5						Hanna from launch to 2007		Sold to Honduran interests and named the AJ Transport or the Coimar Transport	Bahamas on long-haul voyages to Mayaguana, Acklins, Crooked Island, Long Cay (Fortune Island), and Inagua	In 2003 was Rodney Miller	In August 3^rd 2003 was in a severe collision with the Sea Hauler 14 miles south of Eleuthera	Ro-Ro cargo vessel
VI Nais	M/V			2007	Chauvin, Louisiana	Portier Shipyard	487 GT, 587 DWT		190			Two Mitsubishi engines rated 927 hp at 1,400 rpm. The engines are rated Tier 3 with the US Environmental Protection Agency	927		Panama	Thomas Hanna under either the Ro-Ro or Carib-USA brands	MMS Ship-management of Palm Beach and Ro-Ro Company of Nassau		North and South Cat Island, taking about 24 hours, and costing $60 each way	Tom Hanna
Willaurie	M/V	Willmary	Yes	1966 – completed November 1966	Hoogezand SW of Hoogezand, Netherlands		199 GT, 376 DWT		138	25		Single German 290 horsepower engine, single propeller	290	8.5		W. B. Hart, Nassau, NP Bahamas	In 1960s she was sold from Netherlands to the a firm named Antler Ltd. of London, UK used for coastal trades to ports like Goole, Charlestown, Hartlepool and Fulham	In 1980 her classification by Lloyds Register was withdrawn and her flag changed from UK to Nassau, where W. B. Hart owned her	Rum Cay, San Salvador, and Cat Island in the southeastern Bahamas, presumably from 1980 – 1988.	Final skipper was Stuart Cove	Sank three times. The final sinking by dive operator Stuart Cove SE of Goulding Cay, as a diving attraction the day after Christmas, 1988.
William Sayle	M/V			1944		Earl & Gerald Johnson of Harbour Island		Wood								Roland T. Symonette			Believed to have served Sir Roland T. Symonette’s large commercial interests in Nassau and beyond, but not known specifically to have carried the mails under subsidy		Not known but no longer listed after 1940 as being registered in the Bahamas	Named for the leader of the Eleutherian Adventurers who left Bermuda in the 1640s and landed at North Eleuthera
Windward Express	M/V						95	Steel								Windward Shipping Company (c.1998)			Southern Bahamas (1995-2000). Nassau, Spring Point Acklins Island, Landrail Point Crooked Island, Long Cay / Fortune Island, Mayaguana, Inagua, southern Bahamas, Nassau – the voyage out taking about 23 hours.	Leroy Ferguson
Yes Sir	M/V							Wood (probably)	70										Out, or Family, Islands from Nassau from 1947
Zelma Rose	M/V			1947	Abaco		30	Wood												Edison Higgs	Capsized in Fleeming/Fleming Channel, 40 miles east of Nassau at 2:50 am on June 1st 1952, killing 6 people	Motor vessel

One comment on “Database of over 200 mailboats in Bahamas 1800s to present”

Willamae M. Johnson says:
January 8, 2018 at 10:56 am
Mr. Wiberg,
Very encouraged by the work you have and are doing to preserve the maritime history. I am especially pleased to see what you have uncovered on The Bahamas and it is in this regard that I write.
As Librarian at the LJM Maritime Academy, I am always interested to gain access to documents which record the maritime history of The Bahamas, in particular. We have plans to open a maritime museum on the campus and the work in which you are engaged can certainly enhance the presentation of resources which will be available through the museum. In the meantime, may I add your link to the library holdings? Grateful for your favourable consideration.

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