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

Related Entries
Soldiers posing in line wearing hats with buildings cabins tents on hillside in background Civil War through Reconstruction, 1861 through 1874 Steamboats on river with trees and shore in the foreground Steamboats Large crowd on a steamboat with two smoke stacks at boat dock Sultana White men pose on horse-drawn trolley labeled "Walnut Ridge & Hoxie, 2" with store, restaurant behind Transportation