YAQUE Class: 1947 - Final Yankees Shaw-Savill The artwork typifies mid-1960s style

The artwork typifies mid-1960s style with breezy passengers enjoying shipboard life against brightly colored backdrops

The ships were the last two in a class of five ships

Ellerman City & Hall Lines - The sad irony of it all

All passengers and crew were saved but the ship sank off the Canary Islands

she was sent from Sydney to California

YAQUE Class: 1947 - Final Yankees Shaw-Savill The artwork typifies mid-1960s styleUnited Fruit Company: A deck plan of the YAQUE Class of combo freighters built immediately after WW2. The plan itself is reminiscent of the great pre WW2 designs printed on thin tissue, opening to a large size (18" by 24"), nicely illustrated, and showing plans large enough that you can easily imagine yourself strolling the decks. Mark Goldberg, in his history of American fruit ships "Going Bananas", describes the class as "beautiful white ships with