The Rocket: a misnomer of sloth-sized proportion

Posted on 28. Mar, 2008 by in Best of Bangladesh, Free Travel Tips, Sundarbans

When the Rocket steamer service first commenced its service in 1956, the vessels may have been some of the fastest water-borne vessels of their time. Eighty years and one refurbishment later, the four Rocket is still “hammering around the Delta,” as travel writer Jack Barker put it, and fortunately only one of the six original [...]