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USAT Evangeline

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Rows - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Transport:

Built in 1926 as the Passenger/Cargo ship SS Evangeline by William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Co., PA. for Eastern Steamship Lines

Launched in 1926

Delivered in 1926

SS Evangeline operated the Boston – Yarmouth, Nova Scotia service for the Eastern Steamship Lines until World War II

Acquired by the War Shipping Administration, 1 June 1942, from Eastern Steamship Lines

Chartered, 29 March 1943, by the War Department from the War Shipping Administration

USAT Evangeline served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during World War II

Reacquired, 19 February 1946, by Eastern Steamship Lines under a General Agency Agreement

Refitted and refinished at the Bethlehem Steel Corp shipyard and returned to passenger service in May 1947

Laid up 1948 to 1953

Sold in April 1954 to Volusia Steamship Co., Liberia, reflagged Panama

Sold in 1963 to the Chadade Steamship Co., renamed SS Yarmouth Castle, operated by Yarmouth Cruise Lines between Miami and Nassau

Final Disposition, burnt and sank, 12 November 1965

Specifications:
Displacement 5,043 gross tons
Length 365'
Beam 56
Draft 22'9"
Speed 18 kts

Complement

Officers unknown

Crew unknown

Armed Guard unknown

Troopship Passenger Capacity 1,301

Cargo Capacity 4,540 cf

Cruise Radius 9,000 nm

Propulsion unknown

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USAT Evangeline
301302207	317k	USAT Evangeline being guided in the inner harbor at, Casablanca, French Morocco. 18 March 1943. She reached Casablanca in convoy UGF6. Life Magazine photos by Dmitri Kessel, from *USS Nicholson* (DD-442)**. Used for educational and non-commercial purpose.	John Chiquoine
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301302211	340k	USAT Evangeline moored in the inner harbor at, Casablanca, French Morocco. 18 March 1943. She reached Casablanca in convoy UGF6. Life Magazine photos by Dmitri Kessel, Used for educational and non-commercial purpose.	John Chiquoine
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301302206	81k	USAT Evangeline arriving off Swan Beach (Barge Point No. 22), Jacquinot Bay, New Britain, 16 November 1944, with troops of the Royal Australian Army 16th Infantry Battalion aboard. Australian War Memorial	John Spivey
Pre WWII and Post WWII Merchant Service Eastern Steamship Lines
	258k	Post card image of SS Evangeline under way, date and location unknown
	47k	Post card image of SS Evangeline under way, date and location unknown
	36k	SS Evangeline moored at pier 18 New York City, date unknown	Eastern Steamship Co
	208k	SS Yarmouth Castle under way, in 1964-65, location unknown
	89k	SS Yarmouth Castle on fire, 12 November 1965	Eastern Steamship Co

USAT Evangeline history is from "Troopships of World War II", by Roland W. Charles, Published by The Army Transportation Association, Washington, D.C., 1947

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