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  2. Category:Banana boats (ships) - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Banana boats (ships)" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 ...

  3. Banana boat (ship) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Borinquen (1930) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. TSS Camito - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Martex Farms - Wikipedia

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    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."

  7. Federal agents in Puerto Rico seize $35 million worth of ...

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    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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. HMS Bayano (1913) - Wikipedia

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    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]