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Imperial Direct

PORT HENDERSON

She was built as ARAWA in 1884 as a two funnel, clipper bowed vessel of 5,200 gross tons,
with passenger capacity of 150. She was bought from Shaw, Saville & Albion in 1899, renamed
LAKE MEGANTIC and put on Elder Dempster’s Canadian service. She was transferred in 1905 to
meet the passenger carrying obligations of the Imperial Direct contract and renamed PORT
E1ENDERSON, although as a much older vessel with few passenger facilities she was a very
unsuitable consort for PORT KINGSTON. She was sold to Italy in 1912 and renamed ANAPO.

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Constant Spring Hotel. Jamaica

A mint postcard of the Constant Spring Hotel in Jamaica with an inset picture of PORT
HENDERSON, together with a used postcard of the vessel addressed to Southsea, posted in a street
letter box in Kingston on 29th September 1910 from somebody who has just landed. Interestingly he
sent a letter the same day via America, probably carried by a U.F.C. ship.