“Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana” by Gene Eric Salecker (Naval Institute Press) Nearly 1,200 people perished when the steamship Sultana exploded and burned in the early morning hours of April 27, ...

The hook: A Cincinnati-built steamboat exploded in April 1865, killing some 2,000 people in what remains to this day the worst maritime disaster in the history of the United States. The SS Sultana was ...

In the pre-dawn hours of April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana departed Memphis and was heading north on the Mississippi River, overcrowded with Union Army soldiers freed from prisoner of war camps, ...

The Sultana steamboat disaster in 1865, at the end of the Civil War, has been called America's worst maritime disaster. With an estimated loss of up to 1,800 soldiers who were returning home on the ...

A new exhibit at the Arkansas state Capitol provides a sneak preview of plans to create a spacious state-of-the-art museum in Marion, detailing the deadliest maritime disaster in U.S. history. Four ...

On Saturday, June 29 at 2 p.m. and again on Sunday, June 30, 2 p.m. Gene Wright, history professor at Ashford University, Clinton, Iowa will present the tragic story of the Civil War steamboat SULTANA ...

The Sultana, a side-paddle steamboat, is shown above, obviously overloaded. The boat sank in the Mississippi River near Marion, Ark., across the river from Memphis, Tenn., in 1865. (Photo Provided) In ...

(WHTM) — It was the worst maritime disaster in American history. And yet, the explosion and sinking of the Mississippi riverboat Sultana was almost completely forgotten. Sultana measured 260 feet, ...

Jerry O. Potter, author of The Sultana Tragedy tells Linda Wertheimer about the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history, the Apr. 27, 1865 explosion and sinking of the grossly overloaded steamboat ...

Nearly 1,200 people perished when the steamship Sultana exploded and burned in the early morning hours of April 27, 1865, in the Mississippi River. It's the worst maritime disaster in United States ...

The Cincinnati region has been connected to monumental crimes and criminals in years past. Here is a look at one of them. The hook: A Cincinnati-built steamboat exploded in April 1865, killing some ...