On March 28, 2026, Dan Harrington, Long time columnist for the Providence Journal presents Larchmont Remembered: the Amazing Story of New England’s Most Horrific Maritime Disaster.
OnMarch 7, 2026, SSHSA Board Vice President, Captain Eric Takakjian presented about his book Yarmouth Castle Burning, the Deadliest Passenger Ship Disaster off the Coast of the United States since 1934.
Of the 552 people on board for a weekend round trip between Miami and Nassau, on November 13, 1965, a total of 94 would perish when the cruise liner SS Yarmouth Castle caught fire and sank near Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas. Although the survival of over 450 people from the inferno was nothing short of a miracle, this tragedy marks the deadliest passenger ship disaster off the coast of the United States since the burning of the liner SS Morro Castle off the coast of New Jersey in 1934.
SSHSA hosts the Warwick Public Schools Family Engagement Program through Title 1 at the Ship History Center
