SS Yarmouth Castle
Yarmouth Castle sailing under her original name, Evangeline
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| Name: | Evangeline |
| Owner: | Eastern Steamship Lines |
| Builder: | William Cramp and Sons in Philadelphia |
| Yard number: | 524 |
| Launched: | September 1927 |
| Out of service: | 1954 |
| Fate: | Sold and transferred to Panamanian registry. |
 Panama
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| Name: | Evangeline |
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| Operator: | Eastern Shipping Corporation |
| In service: | 1954-1963 |
| Out of service: | 1963 |
| Renamed: | Yarmouth Castle |
| Fate: | Name and ownership changed in 1963 |
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| Name: | Yarmouth Castle |
| Owner: | Chadade Steamship Company |
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| In service: | 1964-1965 |
| Out of service: | 1963 |
| Renamed: | Yarmouth Castle |
| Fate: | On November 13, 1965 she caught fire and sank 60 miles northwest of Nassau, Bahamas. |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Coastal passenger liner/Cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 5,002 Tons |
| Length: | 378 ft (115 m) |
| Beam: | 56 ft (17 m) |
| Speed: | 18 knots |
| Capacity: | 365 Passengers in 186 cabins |
SS Yarmouth Castle was an American steamship whose loss in a disastrous fire in 1965 prompted new laws regarding safety at sea.
She was built in 1927 by the William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company in Philadelphia. She was christened Evangeline. The ship was 365 feet long and measured 5,002 gross tons. Her sister ship, Yarmouth, was launched the same year.
Evangeline operated the Boston – Yarmouth, Nova Scotia service for the Eastern Steamship Lines until World War II, when she was sent to the Pacific to serve as a troop ship. The ship ferried combat troops from San Francisco to the island battlefronts and also served as a hospital ship. After being refitted and refinished at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation's shipyards at a cost of US$1.5 million, she returned to passenger service in May 1947.
She operated on the New York City – Bahamas run for less than a year, and was then laid up from 1948 to 1953, save for a two-month period in 1950. The ship was sold to a Liberian company called the Volusia Steamship Company in 1954. She was given an overnight run from Boston to Nova Scotia, and resumed service to the Caribbean in 1955.
The ship was sold in 1963 to the Chadade Steamship Company, and her name was changed to Yarmouth Castle that year. She offered service from New York City to the Bahamas for Caribbean Cruise Lines, which went bankrupt that same year. By the end of 1964, Yarmouth Castle was operated by Yarmouth Cruise Lines. The ship ran pleasure cruises on the 186-mile stretch between Miami and Nassau. She was under Panamanian registry.
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