ST HELENA 1990 |
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RETURN TO THE HOMEPAGE
THE OCEAN LINERS |
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Welcome to our RMS St Helena website celebrating this remarkable ship. This unique passenger cargo ship is the last ocean mailship. She is the last working Royal Mail Ship in the world and is a vital lifeline for the islands of St Helena and Ascension Island. She operates from Cape Town and Walvis Bay to the remote islands of St Helena and Ascension Island. She also makes occasional line voyages twice a year from Cape Town to Portland in the UK via Walvis Bay, St Helena, Ascension Island, Tenerife, and Vigo. However
this last vestige of the mailships to the tropics and the ocean liner
era is likely to disappear forever in 2010. In 2005 the British
Government announced that an airfield is to be constructed on St Helena
and this is likely to be completed by 2010. Ascension Island already
has a military airfield. By this time the RMS St Helena will be nearing
the end of her working life. This means that it is likely that the
ocean lifeline to St Helena and Ascension Island from Cape Town,
Walvis Bay and Portland (UK) will cease forever. This will mark the end
of the ocean mailship era and the last vestige of the age of the ocean
liners. This
website aims to record the history of this fine British ocean liner and
act as
a virtual home to honour and commemorate this fine ship. We hope you
enjoy this
website and when you leave we hope you will visit again soon.
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R.M.S.
ST HELENA ~ The Last Ocean Mailship in the World ~
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Cape Town to Walvis Bay, St Helena and Ascension Island "Islander" service "THE ISLANDER SERVICE" Portland (UK) to Vigo, Tenerife, Ascension Island, St Helena, Walvis Bay and Cape Town "St Helena Mail" service "THE ST HELENA MAIL SERVICE" |
(c) Cruise Ship History Collection 2018 including www.thecunarders.co.uk A Edward Elliott