Various articles about ships, crews, and sea adventures of the U.S. Navy, as well as Merchant ships....from the 'beginning' up through WW II and present day.
The worst river disaster in American history saw nearly 1600 Union Army soldiers, many of them painfully wounded, died when the boilers of the chartered paddle steamer Sultana suddenly exploded with a force that lit the night sky. The fiery blast was heard ten miles away in Memphis but this terrible tragedy was overshadowed by news of President Lincoln's death at the hand of an assassin.
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