A deal has finally been signed for an air service into St Helena’s £285 million airport – 14 months after it should have opened. No date has been set for the start of flights by South African operator SA Airlink. Flights between the island and Johannesburg will include a stop at Windhoek in Namibia to …
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 was present when the keel was laid. And now here they all were, ploughing northward on what should have …
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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 year. Adam will become one of three St Helenians to have captained the ship, alongside Captain Andrew Greentree. …
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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 ship’s captain. A pioneer. He gave young Saints hope – showing them that with hard work and dedication they could …
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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 for the first time, in May 2005 in Walvis Bay, Namibia, the captain of the ship of our …
Prince Edward, the Queen’s third son, is to perform the official opening ceremony for St Helena Airport – as long as safety inspectors have given clearance for it to become operational. From St Helena Government: The historic opening of St Helena Airport is planned for the morning of Saturday 21 May 2016 – St Helena’s …
A criminal investigation has been carried out into illegal fishing around Ascension Island. But the media on St Helena were banned from reporting on an investigatory expedition aboard the MFV Extractor until it was over (archive picture by Bruce Salt). No details of the operation have emerged from official sources at the time of writing. …
Andy Crowe’s vivid paintings of St Helena’s capital city provided a colourful theme for a set of postage stamps. And now one of them is to be sold at auction to raise some capital for an island charity. Readers are invited to place sealed bids in time for the auction on 17 March 2016. Andy …
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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 been completed four months before the planned retirement date for the RMS St Helena. The company …
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The target opening date for St Helena’s airport remains 21 May 2016, despite “challenges” meeting safety demands, officials in The Castle have insisted. St Helena Government also said there was “nothing new” in a comment about problems with the island’s terrain, quoted in UK media reports. The UK’s Independent newspaper quoted project director Janet Lawrence …
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