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SS Evangeline (II)
SS Evangeline (II) 1927-1954 (In CPR Service)
- Built in 1927 by the William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 365 feet long
- 5,002 gross tons[1]
Run by the CPR partner, the Eastern Steamship Company. From 1927 to the start of WWII, Evangeline served the Yarmouth-New York route connected in the summer with the fast passenger trains No. 25 and 26, The New Yorker.
She was a sister ship to the Yarmouth.
After her service ended with the CPR in 1954, she was used as a cruise ship in the growing cruise ship business. A fire on-board however ended her career and many lives at the same time resulting in changes in Maritime law as a result of the tragedy.[1]
Gallery
Description of ship in the 1929 Passenger Time Table.
SS Evangeline preparing to sail from Central Wharf, Boston, MA for Yarmouth, NS on July 2, 1954.
Eastern Shipping Co. SS Evangeline at Boston Boat dock, Yarmouth, NS on July 3, 1954.
SS Evangeline from opposite shore of Yarmouth harbor on July 11, 1954.
