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The English cricket team that toured the West Indies in 1959–1960 used banana boats to travel across the Atlantic and between the islands. [ citation needed ] They were better known for bringing West Indian immigrants to Great Britain , and to say that someone came off a banana boat was a derogatory phrase used by those who objected to their ...
Borinquen was similar in characteristics and design to the line's earlier ship, SS Coamo (1925) with the Lloyd's Register, 1930–31 [8] showing the ship as ordered for the New York & Porto Rico Steamship Company with an original date of 1930, both stricken, with a new date 1931 and "Coamo S.S. Corp" with New York & Porto Rico Steamship Company ...
She had three passenger decks [2] with cabins for 96 first class passengers, [3] 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.
The company was founded in 1989 and incorporated in Puerto Rico. [4] It 1991 the company had 1,000 acres in process of development. [3]In 2001, Martex Farms bought Fruits International’s Pango Mango brand for an amount believed to be worth "several million dollars."
Federal agents seized an estimated $35 million worth of cocaine from a boat that ran aground a reef off Puerto Rico’s south coast, authorities said Thursday. Two men from the Dominican Republic ...
Contestant Chris Davidson attempted to answer a puzzle and secure an $8,400 trip to Puerto Rico, but he made a major rookie mistake. While solving the puzzle, Davidson added an article which ...
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]