Shooter Maddy tastes TV fame in baton relay programme
Commonwealth Games hopeful Madolyn Andrews features in a three-minute profile of St Helena on a BBC television programme following the Queen’s Baton Relay. Maddy is seen training to take part in the...
View ArticleStunning island images – but not quite the whole picture
Some truly stunning pictures accompany a travel article urging tourists to seize a last chance to make the “iconic” voyage to Jamestown on the RMS St Helena. One panorama, looking across Bamboo Hedge...
View ArticleGo now: Rough Guides advice on travel to St Helena
Rough Guides, one of the world’s leading travel writing brands, has published an online piece selling the charms of St Helena – under the direct headline, ‘St Helena: Go Now’. The piece goes over the...
View ArticleLast hurrah for St Helena boatmen as sea freight deal is signed
A contract to operate a cargo ship to replace the RMS St Helena has been signed – and it will include a small number of passenger berths for the Ascension run. The deal with AW Ship Management Ltd has...
View Article‘He was one of those people you meet and never forget’– a passenger’s tribute...
Tina Wagner, a past passenger on the RMS St Helena, heard the news of Captain Rodney Young’s death at her home in Germany and wrote the following tribute. For Captain Rodney. When we set eyes on him...
View ArticleHe was the Master at sea, but on St Helena, his family kept his feet on the...
VILMA CLINGHAM-TOMS pays tribute of Captain Rodney Young of the RMS St Helena on behalf of the St Helena Association in the UK We were so proud of Rodney’s achievement in becoming St Helena’s first...
View ArticleAdam becomes third Saint master of the RMS St Helena
The RMS St Helena has a new master: Adam Williams, a Saint who started his career on the ship as a 16-year-old cadet, will take over from Captain Rodney Young MBE, who died unexpectedly in the new...
View ArticleThe Last Farewell: Tony’s video tribute to the RMS St Helena
Captain Andrew Greentree had spent more than half his life at sea on the RMS St Helena. Patrick Williams and Eddie Benjamin had been on the maiden voyage up from Cape Town, 26 years earlier. Gay Marr...
View Article‘A true St Helenian farewell’: RMS St Helena departs on final voyage from her...
Picture courtesy of St Helena Government Some watched from the quayside, and some climbed to the high ground to watch the RMS St Helena steam across James Bay and out towards the horizon, for what...
View ArticleDepths of emotion: divers say a damp goodbye to the RMS (and they took their...
Members of St Helena Dive Club fly the flag – under water (picture: Sam Cherrett) It seemed there was no part of the RMS St Helena that went uncelebrated during the ship’s final visit home. Not even...
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