Arisan Maru
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Arisan Maru was a 6,886 GRT Type 2A freighter constructed in 1944 during World War II and was one of Imperial Japan's hell ships. The vessel, named for a mountain on Taiwan, was initially used as a tr
Launch of Arisan Maru
Sultana (steamboat)
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Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,164 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States hist
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…List of maritime disasters in World War II Sultana (steamboat) Glusman, John A. (2005). Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese 1941–1945. New York: Penguin…
Sultana at Helena, Arkansas, on April 26, 1865, the day before her destruction. A crowd of paroled prisoners covers her decks.
POW Camp Fisk, Four Mile Bridge, Vicksburg, Mississippi April 1865.
Sultana on fire, from Harper's Weekly.
An artist's impression of the fire (2015)