Pilot lore; from sail to steam . ships with passenger accommodations, eightare refrigerator banana cargo ships, one is a non-refrigeratorbanana cargo ship, one is an oil tanker and four are sugar cargovessels. One new refrigerator banana cargo ship with electricdrive is in service and four new refrigerator banana cargo and pas-senger ships are being built for its English fleet, bringing the latterfleet up to a total of nineteen steamships, of which six are refrigera-tor banana cargo ships with passenger accommodations and thebalance refrigerator banana cargo ships. Usually the Companyoperates
Pilot lore; from sail to steam . ships with passenger accommodations, eightare refrigerator banana cargo ships, one is a non-refrigeratorbanana cargo ship, one is an oil tanker and four are sugar cargovessels. One new refrigerator banana cargo ship with electricdrive is in service and four new refrigerator banana cargo and pas-senger ships are being built for its English fleet, bringing the latterfleet up to a total of nineteen steamships, of which six are refrigera-tor banana cargo ships with passenger accommodations and thebalance refrigerator banana cargo ships. Usually the Companyoperates about ninety steamships in connection with its business(including its chartered steamers and English fleet). Most of the ships of the Great White Fleet today fly theAmerican flag and during the past ten years it has had the dis-tinction of carrying 560,000 passengers and moving 13,960,000 tons of freight. — 182 o re r-4- a-a «> 00 «. a a. a. o Co a cr. 9 tfl Hi Zfi a- H r-+- O re P3 *H W TO m re re re o 3 a. .r\. W W 17 ^^[Q; VJ T7[t7 EI EL The ships of the Great White Fleet are built particularlyfor services in tropical waters, the comfort and safety of pas-sengers being especially provided for. The passenger accommoda-tions are unexcelled; the staterooms are large and spacious andmany have private baths; the cuisine is equal to that of the besthotels. These steamships furnish regular passenger, mail andfreight service between the Atlantic ports of the United Statesand Cuba, Jamaica and the Atlantic ports of Central America andColombia and through the connecting lines at the Panama Canalwith the west coast ports of South America. In other words theGreat White Fleet directly serves nine countries of the WesternHemisphere and is a prime factor in the commerce of twenty-threenations of that hemisphere. Each week sees at least four ships flying the United FruitCompanys house flag arrive at or depart from the Port of NewYork, and frequently the number is greater. In addition
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