The ship s name was also changed to SS " Band1rma ", Turkish for Panderma, and she served then as a mail ship in the coastal waters of Ottoman Empire.
42.
The company hoped to supply P & O China mail ships, but there were complaints about quality as well as quantity which were not helped by friction with the authorities.
43.
Sports had an important role to play as it helped to fill the idle hours for the colonials who had to wait for months for news of home from mail ships.
44.
Passenger tenders were usually owned by the shipping lines and would only service their own vessels, mail tenders were often owned by national post offices and would attend any mail ships.
45.
While on his way to oversee the building and exploitation of a coal mine and railway line in Central Sumatra, he died aboard the French mail ship Djemnah near Aden, Yemen.
46.
Roach was put in a difficult position as he still had several Pacific Mail ships in an uncompleted state on his slipways with an aggregate value in excess of $ 500, 000.
47.
Early in 1946 the ship began operating as escort and mail ship between the Philippines and ports in China and Korea in support of American troops remaining in these countries to preserve stability.
48.
She was also contracted for over 20 years to carry the Royal Mail thus enabling her to carry the prestigious Royal Mail Ship ( RMS ) designation, as the second half of the two ships'weekly express service.
49.
However conflict was averted when the colony was re-established by Captain John Stott with the ships, and HMS " Florida " ( a mail ship which had already been at the founding of the original settlement ).
50.
The last operating Royal Mail Ship RMS " St Helena " runs to and from Cape Town ( and less frequently to and from the UK, and sometimes via Walvis Bay in Namibia ) to the islands.
