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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.
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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.
Jul 21, 2014 · 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.
Of a total of 2,137 souls aboard the Sultana on April 27, 1865, there were 963 survivors and 1,169 deaths, giving the Sultana the ominous distinction of being the worst maritime disaster in American history, to this very day.
On the Sultana were 280 boys from Michigan, 169 of whom were from the 18th Michigan Infantry and of whom 67 died. One of the boys lost was Jonathan Robins of Allen who wrote a letter from Vicksburg on April 14, 1865 filled with hope that he would soon be home.
Of the almost 2,500 people aboard the Sultana, only 757 were rescued and of that almost 300 died in the hospital. This disaster claimed more lives than the Titanic, yet never received the attention. It was overshadowed by President Abraham Lincoln's death on April 14, 1865.
Oct 8, 2017 · Suddenly one of the boilers exploded, triggering the worst inland marine disaster in U.S. history. The initial impact ripped the vessel in half, igniting flames, releasing scalding steam, and instantly killing or mortally wounding hundreds of sleeping passengers as well as a number of stock animals.
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.
