High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Commissioned by the Eastern Steamship Lines for the Yarmouth, Nova Scotia - Boston service, she was built in 1927 by the William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was christened Evangeline, in honour of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem, and the fact that the Yarmouth to Halifax route of the connecting Dominion Atlantic Railway was labelled the "Land of Evangeline Route". Evangeline was 365 feet long and measured 5,002 gross tons. Her sister ship on the Boston-Yarmouth service, the Yarmouth, was launched the same year.