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CARIB PRINCE / FANI / MIKHAIL ARCHANGEL / SULE 

BUILT IN 1893,CARIB PRINCE WAS A VESSEL OF 2,048 TONS, BUILT BY SHORT BROTHERS OF SUNDERLAND.SHE WAS THE SISTER SHIP TO THE CREOLE PRINCE.FROM SEPTEMBER 1893 THE CARIB PRINCE WAS CHARTERED TO THE TRINIDAD DIRECT LINE STEAMSHIP CO, FOR FOUR YEARS,AND HER "RUN" SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN FROM THE CARIBBEAN UP TO NEW YORK,WHICH CONFLICTS WITH SOME OTHER INFORMATION,POINTING TOWARDS HER HAVING BEEN ON THE MEDITERRANEAN TO NEW YORK ROUTE. SHE WAS SOLD IN 1922 TO A GREEK COMPANY,J S COULIS OF PIRAEUS,, AND RE-NAMED FANI. SOLD THE FOLLOWING YEAR TO A TURKISH COMPANY AND RE-NAMED MIKHAIL ARCHANGEL.IN 1926 SHE WAS SOLD TO ANOTHER TURKISH COMPANY,BARZILAY AND BENJAMIN AND RE-NAMED SULE ( ORIGINALLY CHOULE,BUT THIS WAS LATER CHANGED TO SULE ).SOLD YET AGAIN TO ANOTHER TURKISH COMPANY IN 1928.SHE WAS STILL IN SERVICE IN 1948,BUT TRACE LOST OF HER BY 1950.THE ABOVE IS A RARE PICTURE OF THE CARIB PRINCE,DATED TO ABOUT 1919,DAN MILLIKEN'S FATHER SERVED ON HER AT THIS STAGE OF HER HISTORY.

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