“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 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 ...

Construction on a new site in Marion for an east Arkansas museum that tells the story of "the worst maritime disaster in American history" is expected to begin March 4, the preservation society behind ...

MARION — An Arkansas steamboat disaster that claimed more victims than the Titanic's fabled sinking merits a museum large enough for a full telling of the tragedy. Fundraising for such a vastly ...

An artist's depiction shows the Sultana steamboat engulfed in flames on the Mississippi River near Memphis in 1865. Credit: Courtesy: Sultana Disaster Museum The country’s biggest maritime disaster ...

SULTANA STEAMBOAT: Overflowing with passengers, the steamboat exploded and sunk in the Mississippi River in 1865. Credit: Library of Congress Arkansas Sen. John Boozman and Rep. Rick Crawford are ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) - It has been 157 years since what is considered to be one of the worst maritime disasters in U.S. history. On April 27, 1865, the S.S. Sultana steamboat was heading to St.

If you haven’t heard of the Sultana, it’s not because Doug Stout, and Dan Fleming, and Chris Evans, and a number of us local historians haven’t tried to let you know about it. On April 27, 1865, after ...

MARION, Ark. - What remains of the greatest maritime disaster in U.S. history lies buried beneath an Arkansas beanfield where the Mississippi River once ran. A century and a half later, residents of ...

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 ...