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 With
the expansion of regular motor vessel service and
transAtlantic air travel, there was less call for
Ernestina to make ocean passages. In 1965 she made her
last trip to Providence as a packet.
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| With
the expansion of regular motor vessel service and
transAtlantic air travel, there was less call for
Ernestina to make ocean passages. In 1965 she made her
last trip to Providence as a packet.
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Nevertheless, she kept busy
carrying passengers and goods between the islands and to
the coast of Africa. She also served as a "school
bus" ferrying students from Fogo and Brava to
residential regional high schools on Praia and Mindelo.