The British Overseas Territory of St. Helena is one of the most remote islands in the world, situated in the South Atlantic Ocean about 1,210 miles west of the coast of Africa. It's so remote that ...

RMS St. Helena, one of the last Royal Mail Ships in the world is to continue serving her remote South Atlantic island namesake until 1 July 2017, the St Helena Government has announced.

The RMS St Helena schedule will run until April 2016, two months after the airport opens. Then what? There is talk of a cruise, perhaps northwards to England, ...

For the last 26 years RMS St Helena has been the only means of access to the remote island of St Helena, an Overseas Territory of the UK located 1,200 miles off the West Coast of Africa in the ...

What it was like to sail aboard the RMS St Helena’s final voyage. The last ever Royal Mail Ship completed its last ever journey – and it was surprisingly emotional, says Jonathan Hollins.

Chairman of St Helena Line Ltd (SHL) Matt Young said that the RMS’s combined passenger accommodation (she carries 156 passengers in 56 cabins) and cargo design makes her “well suited to a ...

Until recently, St. Helena, a British overseas territory with a population of about 4,000 people, was accessible only by taking a cruise on board the mail/passenger ship RMS St. Helena.

The RMS St. Helena on Wednesday left the South African city of Cape Town on a final round-trip journey of three weeks to St. Helena and Ascension, another British-ruled island.

The RMS St Helena, which provides the only regular link to the UK Overseas Territory for passengers and cargo, was due to be retired this summer, and made a farewell visit to London last month.

Since 1990, the RMS St Helena was the island’s only link to the mainland. The maiden flight by SA Airlink left Johannesburg and took just six hours.

Recalling a bygone era of stately passenger liners and quaint colonial traditions, the RMS St Helena is making its last journeys before weekly flights to the far-flung South Atlantic island are ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A British ship that was once a lifeline to the outside world for St. Helena is making its last voyage to the remote South Atlantic island where Napoleon died in ...