page_title: SS Yarmouth
section_title: Construction
hierarchical_section_title: SS Yarmouth / Construction
caption_attribution_description: English: SS Yarmouth (ship, 1887) moored at Baker’s wharf, Yarmouth Harbour. ("Beautiful Nova Scotia," p. 60, 1900, YCMA)
context_page_description: The SS Yarmouth was a steamship notable for its part in developing Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and connecting it to Boston, Massachusetts. Later in life it had a central role as the flagship of the Marcus Garvey initiative the Black Star Line. Marcus Garvey, known as the "black Moses", was a "back to Africa" radical, and his ideas, although radical and controversial in his own time and today, still remain influential. The Black Star Line's name, a play on the White Star Line, is remembered in the flag of Ghana.
context_section_description: Built by the Clyde shipbuilder Archibald McMillan & Son, of Dumbarton, Scotland, for the Yarmouth Steamship Company, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Yarmouth was designed to ferry both passengers and goods. She was a steel screw steamer, 220 feet (67 m) long p/p, with a 35-foot (11 m) beam and hold depth of 21.5 feet (6.6 m). She had five watertight compartments and could carry 4,000 barrels. She was fitted with bilge keels and was capable of 14 knots.
   The ship's bell was cast at the foundry of J. M. Broomall, and due to its shape and design it has been speculated that it originated from the Philadelphia area. When launched on 28 February 1887, Yarmouth was designed to be the finest steamship on the route between Eastern Canada and the United States. She was first registered in Glasgow by the shipbuilder and took just 9 1/2 days to sail the Atlantic on her maiden voyage. On 3 May in 1887, she arrived in Yarmouth and under the command of Captain Harvey Doane and Pilot S. F. Stanwood, she made her first trip to Boston a few days later on 7 May.
  She would remain in service on the Yarmouth – Boston route till 1911.
caption: Yarmouth moored at Baker's wharf, Yarmouth
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