RMS St Helena (1989)

The RMS St. Helena St. Helena before

Lloyd 's Register

IMO number:. 8716306

The RMS St Helena is a mail boat that connects the British overseas territory of Saint Helena with the South American mainland.

Construction

The combined cargo and passenger ship has been surveyed with 6,767 GRT and has a crew of 56 men with 128 passengers. It is one of the last ocean-going ships in the postal service of the British flag and was built in the years 1989/1990 at the shipyard Hall Russell & Company in Aberdeen specifically for this route and put into service. The St. Helena was both the final construction of the shipyard, and the last Seeschiffsneubau in Aberdeen. The ship broke its predecessor, the "old " RMS St. Helena from from 1963.

History

Until the 1960s, the island was started in the regular mail boat service from various vessels owned by Union - Castle Line, plying regularly commissioned by the state between England and South Africa. With the increasing air traffic, these lines have been set and to date, the RMS St. Helena is the only remaining ship calling at the island regularly from Cape Town, but the setting of the line is planned.