Talk:SS Yarmouth Castle

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:13, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Link to USCG report
The link to the USCG report for the entry on Yarmouth Castle fire takes one to the current USCG page, which has no listing of the report. Correct link: http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/docs/boards/yarmouthcastle.pdf Is listed under the Dept of the Treasury. Hope this helps. Great entry. --Badboy64 (talk) 02:21, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Unsubstantiated claims in article
The description of the fire in this article is not substantiated in the USCG report on the fire, nor does the article contain references to back its version of events. The article really should be rewritten using the USCG report and other materials to provide a more factual, less sensationalized account of the fire as described in the report --mcpusc (talk) 00:57, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm starting to rework the article on the fire. I hopefully should have something supported by the USCG report later this week. --mcpusc (talk) 00:57, 25 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Wow. I've finally updated this, seems that nobody got round to it in the last 10 years or so... I've seen a documentary about this, which might be behind a lot of the things that were originally in this article. Unfortunately I couldn't source that documentary properly - while it was skewed in certain regards, there were also eyewitness accounts in there that could be used.


 * Much of what was in the article wasn't properly sourced or even contradicted the official report (e.g. article: "sprinkler did not activate" - report: "sprinkler did activate", article: "acts of cowardice and heroism" - report: "crew that remained [...] performed adequately", ...)


 * My work could probably use some copyediting, but the facts are from the official report now. --Averell (talk) 10:19, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Sister ship the real Yarmouth Castle
Her sister ship SS Yarmouth was actually launched in 1926, not 1927. In 1954 it was sold for service as 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 Yarmouth Castle again. She was again given her original name of Yarmouth in 1961 for some cruises from Boston to Yarmouth. The Yarmouth was laid up 1966. Note: her sister ship SS Evangeline (1927) was named Yarmouth Castle in 1961 and sank in 1965. None of this is explained here... Broichmore (talk) 20:28, 13 June 2018 (UTC)