Hi

Quite surprised to see posting of Brazilian Reefer re-classified to general cargo, as apart from her name which gives some idea of the owners thinking, all reports I have seen of her refer to her as a reefer. Would be interested to know what has lead to this conclusion and I'm picking info taken from early Lloyds Register which used the term "General Cargo - Ref", though I think this is now replaced by "reefer" in modern registers. If you have to follow this line then the "Snow" class reefer positings will also need to be re-classified.

Soviet Merchant Ships and the WSS J.Lauritizen 1881 all refer to her as a reefer. She was actually launched with a bottle of orange juice instead of champagne, and spent well over a year at the beginninig of her career shuttling bananas from Ecuador to North America. She later loaded meat cargoes ex New Zealand and the Russians used her as a fish carrier.

Even if the ship had some general spaces, I believe her intended role was worldwide refrigerated tramping. You can argue that some of the big British refrigerated cargoliners should be called reefers as well as some had up to 80% of space fitted to carry refrigerated cargoes. But they were for specific trades with a different kind of thinking. The reefer was the next stage of development, for niche trades, not necessarily large and certainly fast and with temperature settings from hard frozen to chilled. This I believe is the market the Brazilian Reefer was built for.

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