Company:Jamaica Banana Producers
5,471 tons[4000 tons d.w.]
386' x 54'
Spd.:16 knots triple expansion, single screw
Built Clyde[Lithgows] 1931
Trade: West Indies to Britain
Type: Banana carrier:250,000 cu.ft. insulated space.
12 passengers
First new ship to be delivered to the company,which had been established in 1929 with four passenger-cargo ships acquired from the Nelson Line.
1940 torpedoed and sunk by U-boat in North Atlantic
Sister[s]:
JAMAICA PROGRESS 1932>sunk 1940 by U-boat
Similar: JAMAICA PRODUCER 1934> scrapped 1962
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