Sultana (steamboat) - Wikipedia
Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,164 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States history.
The Sultana Disaster - American Battlefield Trust
2014年7月21日 · In the early hours of April 27, 1865, mere days after the end of the Civil War, the Sultana burst into flames along the Mississippi River. The Sultana was a 260-foot-long wooden steamboat, built in Cincinnati in 1863, which regularly transported passengers and freight between St. Louis and New Orleans on the Mississippi River.
The Shipwreck That Led Confederate Veterans To Risk All For Union ... - NPR
On April 27, 1865, a steamboat named the Sultana exploded and sank while transporting Union soldiers up the Mississippi. An estimated 1,800 people died, but few today have heard of this...
THE DISASTER - Sultana Association
It is widely known that people on the Confederate side during the Civil War, even Confederate soldiers, risked their lives to save people from the deadly Mississippi River during the Sultana disaster, most of whom were Union soldiers, their common enemy just weeks earlier.
Steamboats of the Mississippi - Wikipedia
Steamboats played a major role in the 19th-century development of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, allowing practical large-scale transport of passengers and freight both up- and down-river. Using steam power, riverboats were developed during that time which could navigate in shallow waters as well as upriver against strong currents.
The Golden Age of the Steamboat, 1851-1900 - Northern Illinois …
Steamboat travel and trade were interrupted, obviously, by the Civil War. Union control of the Mississippi effectively shut down most commerce. Some steamboats were chartered by Confederate forces for transporting arms and ammunition; there was also a brief Confederate experiment in outfitting steamers as gunboats, using cotton bales as defense ...
Why Nobody Remembers America’s Worst Maritime Disaster
2017年9月28日 · The painting showed dramatic images of a steamship in flames and a river filled with drowning, screaming bodies. In fact, the disastrous Sultana explosion in April 1865 was the United States ...
The Sinking Of The Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster In U.S.
2019年7月30日 · On April 27, 1865, the United States experiences its worst maritime disaster in history. Mere weeks after the Civil War came to an end, the steamboat, Sultana exploded and sank in the Mississippi River, killing an estimated 1,200 to 1,800 Union soldiers who were released from prison and on their way home.
Sultana: Greatest Maritime Tragedy in United States History; A …
The steamboat Sultana met a tragic end on April 27, 1865. It solidified its place in maritime history when the boilers exploded, sending the grossly overloaded steamer into chaos and killing hundreds of recently released Union prisoners of war. Although historically significant, the wreck has little notoriety due to overshadowing by President ...
Sultana steamship explosion kills 1,700 | April 27, 1865 - HISTORY
2009年11月13日 · The steamboat Sultana explodes on the Mississippi River near Memphis, killing 1,700 passengers including many discharged Union soldiers. The accident is still considered the...