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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 · The Sultana Disaster. 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 ...
The Sultana Explosion refers to the catastrophic steamship disaster that occurred on April 27, 1865, when the SS Sultana, a Mississippi River steamboat, exploded while carrying a large number of passengers, including recently freed Union soldiers.
Aug 16, 2024 · The steamboat Sultana, overloaded with over 2,000 passengers — mostly Union soldiers recently released from Confederate prison camps — exploded and sank, resulting in the deaths of an...
Apr 27, 2015 · 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...
On April 24, 1865, a steamboat named Sultana left Vicksburg, Mississippi, bound for Cairo, Illinois. On board were 2,300 Union soldiers who had just been released from southern prisons during the Civil War.
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Sep 28, 2017 · In fact, the disastrous Sultana explosion in April 1865 was the United States’ worst maritime disaster—but Potter had never run across the Memphis-area tragedy despite years of study. He wasn...
