- TSS Golfito
TSS "Golfito" was a passenger-carrying banana boat of the
Fyffes Line . She was 8687 tons and 448 feet long.She was built in 1949 by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow and scrapped at Faslane in 1972 [http://www.plimsoll.org/Resources/SCCLibraries/4523.asp PortCities Southampton, Golfito And Camito: Cargo And Passenger Ships, undated.] ] .
She had three passenger decks with cabins for 94 first class passengers [http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/GB_Pass_PCs_D.html#anchor213724 The UK Passenger Ship Fleet of 1967, Ian Boyle, Simplon Postcards, undated] .] , public rooms and open-air deck spaces, centered between four large refrigerated cargo holds, two forward and two aft, that could handle 140,000 stems (1,750 tons) of bananas [http://web.archive.org/web/20060714220828/http://www.oceancruisenews.com/bm9.htm Banana Boats, William H. Miller, The World Ocean & Cruise Liner Society, undated reprint] .] .
Her main trade was general cargo outwards (mostly British manufactured goods), returning with bananas.
She was routed on 4-5 week voyages from Southampton or Avonmouth in England to Barbados, Trinidad and up to 5 ports on Jamaica (Kingston, Port Antonio, Montego Bay, Oracabessa and Bowdin) where bananas were loaded through the cool of the night.
She had a sister ship, the
TSS Camito . Together they provided a regular fortnightly service between the UK and the Caribbean.Notes and references
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* [http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/eldersfyffes.html#ef The Ships List: Elders & Fyffes.]
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