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As a 'Sparks', one of the duties was maintaining 'Company Radio Schedules'. These were set times when R/Os on ships of a Company fleet would call each other to exchange messages of significance to the Company. In practice, this usually meant swapping crew lists and chatting about the good places and experiences in the last port.
One of the ships that I used to contact regularly when I was 3rd R/O on the Golfito was the Reventazon, but I don't see anything about her in any of the threads under E & F nor in the Gallery. I only visited a few other United Fruit vessels, usually in Kingston, but swapped info with many on the Company 'HF skeds'. The ships on the Tiko run, and those that ran into Garston, were never seen. Nice, after all these years, to see what some of them looked like.
Ron Stringer
One of the ships that I used to contact regularly when I was 3rd R/O on the Golfito was the Reventazon, but I don't see anything about her in any of the threads under E & F nor in the Gallery. I only visited a few other United Fruit vessels, usually in Kingston, but swapped info with many on the Company 'HF skeds'. The ships on the Tiko run, and those that ran into Garston, were never seen. Nice, after all these years, to see what some of them looked like.
Ron Stringer