JAMAICA PLANTER (2)

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JAMAICA PLANTER (2)

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:08 am

Built as a passenger- cargo-reefer vessel under yard No 885 by Lithgows at Port Glasgow for Hadley Shipping Co. Ltd. London
08 June 1936 launched as the JAMAICA PLANTER (II).
Tonnage 4,098 gross, 2,407 net, dim. 356.5 x 50.2 x 29.7ft.
Powered by two diesel engines, manufactured by J.C. Kincaid Co. Ltd., Greenock, 808 nhp., twin propellers, speed 15 knots.
August 1936 completed.

1940 Acquired by Jamaica Banana Producers S.S.Co., managed by Kaya, Sons & Co. Ltd.
Used in the service between the Caribbean and the U.K.

22 January 1941 on a voyage from Kingston, Jamaica to Avonmouth with a cargo of citrus fruit and general cargo she ran on a mine in a position 196 degree off Nell’s Point, she was beached in the Old Harbour, Barry, severely damaged, and the cargo was discharged.
13th February refloated and beached Whitmore Bay, 18 February 1941 refloated again and docked in Barry.
After repair she resumed service.
01 July 1941 damaged during an air attack on Barry.

27 December 1944 she sank after a collision with the American tanker WELLESLEY in Barry Roads on a voyage from Halifax N.S. to Avonmouth with a refrigerated cargo.

Jamaica 1999 $10 sg?, scott?

Source: Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1936. some web-sites. Kaye, Son and Co. Ltd. by K O’Donoghue and P. M. Heaton.
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