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Banana boat is a descriptive nickname that was given to fast ships, also called banana carriers, engaged in the banana trade. They were designed to transport easily spoiled bananas rapidly from tropical growing areas to North America and Europe. They often carried passengers as well as fruit. [1] [2]
Pages in category "Banana boats (ships)" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
On 4 August 1941 she found the German ship Frankfurt in the North Atlantic, forcing the latter to be scuttled. This photograph shows Cavina off Greenock on 10 December 1941. Due to a shortage of refrigerated ships she was returned to merchant service on 9 April 1942. She served with Ministry of War Transport until 1946.
By 1938 the Fyffes fleet which had numbered 36 ships in 1932 was down to 21. HMS Cavina, a 6,908 GRT Elders & Fyffes banana boat built in 1924 and converted into an ocean boarding vessel in 1940. By September 1939 there had been 56 ships which had flown the Fyffes flag in the previous 38 years.
USS Talamanca (AF-15) was the United Fruit Company cargo and passenger liner Talamanca that served as a United States Navy Mizar-class stores ship in World War II.. Talamanca was the lead ship of six fast, turbo-electric transmission ships built primarily for banana transport for the United Fruit Company subsidiary shipping line, United Mail Steamship Company.
HMS Bayano, built in 1913, was originally a banana boat for the Elders & Fyffes line. At the outbreak of the First World War it was commandeered by the Royal Navy on 21 November 1914 as an armed merchant cruiser. [2] On 11 March 1915, it was torpedoed by the German submarine SM U-27 and sank within minutes, killing around 200 of its crew. [2]
The organization behind the record-setting cocaine bust in Spain, according to that country’s tax agency, operated through a banana exporting company in Machala, a city south of Guayaquil.
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