Yarmouth (ship, 1926)

SS Yarmouth (1926), at Yarmouth NS – 33. Eastern Steamship Lines provided its Boston–Yarmouth service by means of the Yarmouth Line (Boston & Yarmouth Steamship Co., Ltd.), which had become an Eastern subsidiary in 1917. In 1954 sold for service as a cruise ship under the Panamanian flag with Eastern Shipping Corporation of Miami. Yarmouth was renamed Yarmouth Castle. Renamed Queen of Nassau for a contract with the government of the Bahamas. In 1956 Eastern renamed her back to Yarmouth Castle again. To complicate matters she was again given her original name of Yarmouth from 1961 for some cruises from Boston to Yarmouth. She was laid up 1966. Note: her sister ship SS Evangeline (1927) took on the name of Yarmouth Castle in 1961, she caught fire, and sank in 1965.