article_snippet.sent: This Royal Mail Ship is Jamestown lifeline. 
article_snippet.sent: This Royal Mail Ship carries in all This Royal Mail Ship supplies and up to 150 passengers who range from returning or departing Saints (as the residents are known) to tourists with a taste for something different as well as, more recently, construction workers, entrepreneurs and conservation experts.
article_snippet.sent: Once an airport is open in February 2016, the ship service - which takes five days from Cape Town - will be retired .
article_snippet.sent: This means an airport’s a ship of two halves: the front laden with dozens of huge containers, the back a sun deck where we take dips in the little swimming pool and play quoits, shuffleboard, skittles and passengers v. crew cricket.
article_snippet.sent: These are not compulsory, of course, and many of the Saints for whom the voyage is basically just a bus service sit and watch benignly.
article_snippet.sent: Traveller Liz Gill describes the ship as a 'ship of two halves': the front laden with dozens of huge containers, with a sundeck out back .
article_snippet.sent: Captain Rodney Young himself tells me that sometimes Captain Rodney Young himself surveys the deck and thinks this is still a bit of Empire on which the sun has not yet set.