Sultana

The Sultana leaving Memphis with approximately 2,400 passengers, shortly before it exploded; April 1865. With roughly 1,800 deaths, it is the worst maritime disaster in American history.

Large crowd on a steamboat with two smoke stacks at boat dock

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Media

Time Period

Civil War through Reconstruction (1861 - 1874)

Category

Military Science / Ships and Vessels

Type

Thing

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