PS General Slocum
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PS General Slocum was an American sidewheel passenger steamboat built in Brooklyn, New York, in 1891. During her service history, she was involved in a number of mishaps, including multiple groundings
PS General Slocum
Drawing by Samuel Ward Stanton
St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church, built in 1847 for the German immigrant community, was converted to a synagogue in 1940 due to demographic changes in the neighborhood.
The great catastrophe of the passenger steamboat General Slocum (Angelo Agostini, O Malho, 1904)
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
PS General Slocum
…1912. It remains the worst maritime disaster in New York City history, and the second-worst on U.S. waterways, after the explosion and sinking of the steamboat Sultana, and until the September 11 attacks in 2001 was the deadliest manmade disaster of any sort in the New York area. The events surrounding the General…
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)