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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.
Since the explosion had not come from the furnace fireboxes, the Sultana did not burst into flames immediately. With the loss of three of the four huge boilers, the towering smokestacks lost their support and toppled.
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.
The wooden vessel burst into flames and soon became a raging inferno. Panicked soldiers and civilians tore off any piece of wood from om the steamboat that could be used as a flotation device and jumped overboard. Eventually the screams stopped as the Sultana burned to the water line and sank.
Sep 17, 2022 · The steamboat, Sultana, burst in flames on the fateful night of 27th April 1865, 1800 innocent lives were lost — almost 300 more people were killed in this tragic incident than in the...
- Fareeha Arshad
Sep 28, 2017 · And their worries were well founded: After three days of sailing, Sultana’s leaky boilers exploded. As the ship burst into flames, screaming men did, too.
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Understanding the Sultana Tragedy: The Long Way Home. 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.
