Bantu Wind

The Bantu Wind was a tramp steamer captained by Simon Katanga. In 1936, Katanga agreed to transport Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood — along with their cargo, the Ark of the Covenant, across the Mediterranean. The ship was overtaken and boarded by René Belloq and his Nazi companions, however, and despite Katanga's efforts to intercede, Ravenwood, Jones, and the Ark were taken.

Later that year, Indy rescued Katanga from a Panama City jail, and chartered the Wind for an expedition to the Aleutian Islands, where Indy suspected to find an ancient Chinese temple, predating the Eskimos. Emerelda Vasquez and a crew of pirates commandeered the Wind off the Aleutians, stole the Chinese treasure and demolished the temple, leaving Indy, Katanga and the ship's crew for dead. Katanga's team was able to assume control of Emerelda's submarine, and at the end of the naval battle that ensued, Katanga was once again captain of the Bantu Wind.