The 12 cents stamp of St. Vincent shows the liner Antilles of the French Line alongside the Deep Water Wharf at Kingstown. The Antilles was built by the Arsenal of Brest in 1952, her gross tonnage being 19,828 tons. She is on the company's Havre—Southampton— West Indies run and can carry 303 first-class, 285 second-class and 89 tourist-class passengers, with 100 first or second interchangeable.
She has eight steam turbines developing 42,000 s.h.p., driving twin screws. Her sister ship is the Flandre, but fortunately the latter has a black hull, making the identification of the Antilles a much simpler task than it might have been.
She ran aground and caught fire off Mustique in 1971
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