* Claimed to be Lake Pepin’s Titanic.
* The worst inland water disaster ever.
Mostly women perished of the 98 souls lost because of the heavy dresses being worn at the time.
Take three minutes to reflect on history.
Thanks B K I enjoy the history.
That was interesting. Thanks!
* The worst inland water disaster ever.
Probably meant to mean in Minnesota. I think this one is considered the worst.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)
Sultana was a Mississippi River side-wheel steamboat. On April 27, 1865, the boat exploded in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. Although designed with a capacity for only 376 passengers, she was carrying 2,427 when three of the boat’s four boilers exploded and she burned to the waterline and sank near Memphis, Tennessee, killing an estimated 1,800 passengers.[1] This disaster has long been overshadowed in the press by other contemporary events; John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln’s assassin, was killed the day before.
The wooden steamboat was constructed in 1863 by the John Litherbury Boatyard[2] in Cincinnati, and intended for the lower Mississippi cotton trade. Registering 1,719 tons,[3] the steamer normally carried a crew of 85. For two years, she ran a regular route between St. Louis and New Orleans, frequently commissioned to carry troops.
Good find Jon. Never heard of her. Could you imagine what would happen if a vessel was that over loaded today?
I had to go back and look… you are correct.
“It is one of the worst maritime disasters that has occurred on the upper Mississippi River.”
Good find Jon. Never heard of her. Could you imagine what would happen if a vessel was that over loaded today?
More killed than the Titantic and no one has heard the story…..
-J.
Modern marvels has an engineering disasters episode with the sultana. Very interesting stuff.
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