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Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,547 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States history.
Remember the Sultana: Directed by Mark Marshall, Mike Marshall. With Ray Appleton, Mackenzie Astin, Sean Astin, Jim Beaver. The Sultana was a river boat that exploded in 1865 killing many passengers, mostly Union Soldiers.
- (218)
- Documentary, History
- Mark Marshall, Mike Marshall
- 2018-03-01
Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly maintained boat, and the Mississippi River was swollen with spring snowmelt conspired together to create a disaster.
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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.
Our mission is simple: to preserve the memory of the Sultana Disaster, the largest maritime disaster in American history, and the memory of the nearly 1,200 men and women who lost their lives that fateful evening of April 27, 1865.
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On April 27, 1865, after the Civil War had ended, the Mississippi steamboat Sultana exploded, killing over 1,800 souls, making it the largest maritime disaster in American History.
