Quote Originally Posted by Oudeis View Post
[/COLOR]I have had a look at this as HTML, the Trent is on page 8. Plenty of technical detail: she has 15 kts (whatever that may be?) and was 'dressed' in black at the time of her rescuing post earthquake souls from Jamaica.

www.sdmaritime.org/assets/Uploads/Newsletters/iEuterpeTimesV4No48.pdf
From page 8 of the pdf file, it sounds like they were just comparing the black hull colour to the mourning clothes of the Jamaicans.

Thanks for the newsletter link. My son crewed on the Lady Washington (page 7) and
Hawaiian for several years. The original Lady Washington was tender for the Columbia - whose replica lots of people have seen at Disneyland...