Yarmouth Castle Cruise Ship

The ship ran pleasure cruises on the 186-mile stretch between Miami and Nassau.

Yarmouth castle cruise ship. The fire and sinking of the Yarmouth Castle resulted in nearly one hundred dead passengers and crew. 13 carrying 88 persons to their watery grave. 40 facilities and activities.

Brown ordered full steam ahead in an attempt to rescue those stranded aboard the Yarmouth only to find the ships cowardly captain Byron Voutsinas floating safely in a lifeboat. JUST FIVE MILES BEHIND THE Yarmouth Castle was the cruise ship Bahama Star which was making the same Miami-to-Nassau trip. Look No Further Book Now.

In 1965 the Bahama Star was sailing twelve miles behind the SS Yarmouth Castle when Captain Brown noticed smoke and fire emerging from the distant vessel. Christened Evangeline she was 365 feet long and 5002 GRT. The second shows the SS Yarmouth with its sister ship SS Yarmouth Castle which also ran pleasure cruises from Miami to Nassau.

Look No Further Book Now. Echoes of Morro Castle The incident was eerily similar to the Morro Castle disaster of 1934. Ad Book Today and Save.

Ad Book Today and Save. Photo Print Drawing Survivor of the burning and sinking of the cruise ship the Yarmouth Castle standing wrapped in blanket with unidentified man. Its 5 AM and I stayed up all night finishing these all aside their respective Troop ship colors they had in WW2 which will be a Later Addition so I wont go into too much detail and history all you really need to know is that Yarmouth Castle ex Evangeline sank in 1965 with around 80 people going down with the ship after a fire started in a Storage closet and quickly spread up the ships almost.

Ad Enjoy private balcony swimming pool waterslide park VR experience and free buffet. The Evangeline was rechristened Yarmouth Castle which the owners of the Yarmouth objected to feeling that the name was too close given that the ships. It was a Miami-Nassau cruise ship.