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	Sultana (steamboat) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The steamboat Sultana was a Mississippi River paddlewheeler which was destroyed in an explosion on 27 April 1865, the greatest maritime disaster in United States history.
		An estimated 1,700 of the Sultana's 2,400 passengers were killed when the overcrowded ship's steam drum exploded and the Sultana sank.
		The official cause of the Sultana disaster was determined to be mismanagement of water levels in the boiler, exacerbated by "careening." The Sultana was severely overcrowded and top heavy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sultana_(steamboat) (779 words)

	The Sultana and the Civil War
		The steamboat Sultana was a Mississippi River paddle wheeler which was destroyed in an explosion on April 27, 1865.
		The Sultana was a typical side-wheeler built at Cincinnati in 1863 for the lower Mississippi cotton trade.
		The Sultana swung 'round a bend and began to labor her way past a cluster of islands known as the "Hen and Chickens." Then it happened.
	www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/cw-battles/sultana.html (2836 words)

	Alibris: Sultana
		Based on a true account of a Saudi Arabian princess, "Sultana" is the fictionalized story of a woman, born in the opulence of the Saudi Arabian royal family, who has the courage to defy the norms and traditions that force her to live in a golden cage.
		Sequel to the appallingly vivid account of Sultana, this time the novel focuses on her daughters' lives as growing adolescents in a culture utterly tyrannical toward women.
		Sultana's Dream, first published in 1905 in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopia-a tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken over the public sphere, ending a war nonviolently and restoring health and beauty to the world.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Sultana (924 words)

	Facts about sultana steamboat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The steamboat Sultana was a Mississippi River paddlewheeler which was destroyed in an explosion on 27 April 1865.
		So the Sultana was gone, and it remained to count the dead and to try to find out just why the disaster had happened.No definite count of the casualties was possible because there did not exist any really complete list of the number of men aboard at the time.
		Monuments and historical markers to the Sultana and its victims have been erected at Memphis, Tennessee, Muncie, Indiana, Marion, Arkansas, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Cincinnati, Ohio, Knoxville, Tennessee, Hillsdale, Michigan, and Mansfield, Ohio.
	www.supercrawler.com /Facts/sultana__steamboat_.html (3009 words)

	The Sinking of the Sultana
		The steamboat was the St. Louis and New Orleans packet Sultana.
		It was asserted that the boilers of the Sultana were in Wretched condition; that she had loaded to practically double her capacity; that the explosion of a shell, probably through the treachery of an enemy aboard, had caused the explosion of her boilers which precipitated the wreck.
		The steamer Sultana, one of the People’s and Merchants’ line of packets, Capt. Cass Mason commanding, bound from New Orleans to St. Louis, arrived up on the evening of the 25th at 6:30 o’clock, having on board, it is understood, 1,966 men and thirty commissioned officers.
	www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/sultana.html (3048 words)

	Steam in IL
		In the 1830s Alton was the largest city in the state, a prosperous and progressive steamboat and packing center locked in commercial rivalry with St. Louis.
		Steamboats were the technical wonders of the age.
		Their upper work was frequently designed for light weight and ornament, but the finery was quickly worn out by an uncouth traveling public unsuccessfully encouraged to remove its boots in bed and to use the cuspidors for its chewing tobacco.
	www.eslarp.uiuc.edu /ibex/archive/vignettes/steam_in_il.htm (990 words)

	Sultana Disaster Online - Sultana Memorials
		One of the two Memphis markers for the Sultana is tucked away in a corner of the nearly inaccessible Elmwood Cemetery.
		Part of the city's National Steamboat Monument, this Sultana plaque is engraved in metal and shows a photo of the ship's final and most famous photograph (the original copy of this photo is supposedly in the local library).
		Marion, AR Early on April 27, 1865, the overcrowded steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Marion, Arkansas.
	www.sultanadisaster.com /mems.htm (1155 words)

	Sultana: A Case for Sabotage--Gene Salecker's Rebuttal
		Robert Louden, saboteur of the Sultana, WAS convicted in a court of law of sabotaging steamboats on the Mississippi (Dec. 1863).
		The 1888 newspaper article quotes Streetor as stating, “A torpedo in a lump of coal was carried aboard the steamer at Memphis and deposited in the coal pile in front of the boilers for the express purpose of causing her destruction.
		Steamboats were refueled by the deckhands of each boat, under the direct supervision of the first mate.
	www.civilwarstlouis.com /boatburners/salecker.htm (12805 words)

	BACKTRACKING
		Steamboat companies were vying for the opportunities to provide transportation for these troops.
		When the Sultana left Vicksburg, steaming out into the flow of the Mighty Mississippi after midnight, she was loaded with a motley mix of abused soldiers who wanted only to go home as soon and as quickly as possible.
		It seems that the loss of the Sultana and her passengers received less "coverage" in the media of the day that what might reasonably be expected.
	www.thezephyr.com /backtrack/sultana.htm (3018 words)

	Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Tragedy
		In 1863, the Sultana was built in Cincinnati and began sailing the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, mainly from St. Louis to New Orleans.
		She was state of the art, including the most modern safety equipment--safety gauges that fused open when the internal boiler pressure reached 150 pounds per square inch, three fire-fighting pumps, a metallic lifeboat and a wooden yawl, 300 feet of fire hose, thirty buckets, five fire-fighting axes and 76 life belts.
		They were loaded on steamboats for the trip to Cairo, Illinois, with the government paying $5 per man. That was big money, which led to corruption--steamboat captains kicked back $1.15 to the army officers in charge if they filled the boats with men.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2001/05/0501_river5.html (1230 words)

	'Today in Steamboat History'/SULTANA disaster.
		SULTANA near a desolate group of Mississippi River islands known as 'Hen and Chickens' with a loss of 1,547 lives.
		One possibility, depending on the intent of the original builder, is the Sultana marshbird found in the West Indies and the southern part of the United States bearing bright blue and green feathers.
		The SULTANA was the third act of a tragic period: the decisively bitter and bloody Civil War and the murder of President Lincoln in its final days.
	www.steamboats.org /talkshop/messages/20365.html (364 words)

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		The Sultana also took on board that night, 12 Sisters of Charity, the Chicago Opera Troupe, 100 civilian passengers(4), 60 horses and mules, 100 hogs(5), at least one cow and a ten foot long alligator (the ship's mascot).
		Now, during the last minutes of his beloved Sultana, as she burned around him, he worked to redeem his wrongs."(17) Being the boat's mascot, the ten foot "man-eating" alligator was known to most of the passengers.
		The structure of the porch was nearly identical to the main deck of the Sultana.
	www.irtc.org /ftp/pub/stills/2005-04-30/sultana.txt (3747 words)

	Newschannel 12 \| Sultana: Titanic of the Mississippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Most artifacts remain in their natural resting place, but some pieces have been recovered like steamboat shaker plates from inside the furnace and fire bricks, also from the furnace.
		From the Sultana tragedy, a new set of safety regulations were born.
		Efforts are underway to build a monument to victims of the Sultana in Vicksburg.
	www.wjtv.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=WJTV/MGArticle/JTV_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031770187308&path=!unexplained (590 words)

	Civil War St. Louis Bookstore: Steamboats
		As relates to steamboats, Grimes' pre and post-war occupation was as pilot of Mississippi river steamboats.
		For those studying steamboat history as directly related to the war, the bias may actually be the most significant aspect.
		The book is about building steamboat models, but in the process gives a great deal of information about the structure and construction of actual steamboats.
	www.civilwarstlouis.com /bookstoresteamboats.htm (1327 words)

	Explosion on the Sultana Kills 1600 Ex-Prisoners » The Arkansas News
		WEST MEMPHIS--The Sultana, a steamboat of the Mississippi Steamship Company, suffered a violent explosion and sank in the Mississippi River eight miles upstream from West Memphis this April 27, 1865.
		The steamboat, which was carrying Union ex-prisoners of war from Cahaba prison camp in Alabama, was bound for Cairo, Illinois.
		Steamboat engineer think that the explosion was caused by mud from the river and residue from the engine clogging up the flues.
	www.oldstatehouse.com /educational_programs/classroom/arkansas_news/detail.asp?id=210&issue_id=17&page=6 (625 words)

	Cincinnati.Com - Two Centuries on the Ohio River
		It is the first steamboat in western waters.
		It is the first boat in the Cincinnati-based United States Mail Line, which became the longest lasting steamboat line.
		It is a tradition for steamboats to blow a low whistle when passing his tomb, in gratitude for his services in the War of 1812, when he fought to keep the Ohio River from falling under British control.
	www.cincinnati.com /tallstacks/history_2centuries.html (1396 words)

	Arkansas Stories - Arkansas History Music, Videos, and Information - Education Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Although the Sultana disaster was reported in newspapers across the country, it was overshadowed by the assassination of President Lincoln and by other events coming at the close of the war.
		Trace the route of the Sultana from Natchez, Mississippi, to Memphis, Tennessee, on a map.
		The Sultana was designed to carry 376 people but was crowded with close to 2000 Union soldiers returning to their homes after the Civil War.
	www.arkansasstories.com /SultGuide.html (2198 words)

	Town honors memory of the nation's worst maritime disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		As a crowd gathered and a freight train rumbled by, the re-enactors formed separate ranks for the unveiling Saturday of a new bronze historical marker noting the nation's worst maritime disaster and one of its most obscure.
		It was 135 years ago this month that the steamboat Sultana exploded as it traveled north on the Mississippi River near what is now Marion.
		Gene Shields of Hurst, Texas, is the great-great-nephew of Sultana survivor James R. Collins.
	www.bouldernews.com /news/worldnation/03asult.html (521 words)

	Company D
		William Wheeler was a survivor of the Sultana Steamboat Disaster.
		The boilers of the Sultana, which was steaming full speed up the Mississippi River carrying home 1, 700 happy Union soldiers from southern prison camps, exploded without warning.
		For return to Ohio, he was placed on the infamous steamboat SULTANA, and survived the explosion and sinking of that vessel on April 27th, 1865.
	www.anycities.com /user/hundovi/comp_d.html (1557 words)

	Sultana
		The Sultana was a steamboat that transported many union soldiers that had been prisoner of war during the Civil War from Andersonville and Cahaba prisons.
		Sultana Arkansas Stories It provides the story of the Sultana, and a Free clip of the song "Sultana" performed by the National Award winning group Harmony.
		The Sultana: Death on the Dark River The Story of the Sultana Disaster in 1865
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~myplace/sultana.html (332 words)

	ATU - Ghost Boats of the Mississippi (3CT243)
		Wreckage of a number of vessels was found, including a coal barge, a double-ended barge known as a "model barge", and the tangled debris of a stern wheel steamboat, complete with largely intact smokestacks.
		It was loudly asserted by some visitors that we had found the Sultana, a steamboat that blew up near Memphis in 1865, killing nearly 2000 Federal troops recently released from prisoner of war camps.
		The project exploited dry-land field conditions, so we were able to conduct test excavations particularly in the steamboat area as though we were in a bean field instead of being on the bottom of one of the greatest rivers in North America.
	www.uark.edu /campus-resources/archinfo/atughostboats.html (960 words)

	American and Arkansas History Music - The Sultana Steamboat - Education Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Nobody knows exactly how many people were on board the steamboat Sultana when it exploded into flames at around 2 AM on April 27, 1865.
		Some of the soldiers and a few of the handful of other passengers and crew were able to swim, to grab floating timbers, or to lash together makeshift rafts.
		A young man enlisting in the Confederate Army anywhere near the place that would become the Sultana's graveyard would have been likely to join a unit that would find its way to "Bloody Shiloh." Casualties were heavy on both sides at Shiloh, and both sides took an extraordinary number of prisoners of war.
	arkansasstories.com /sultana-two.html (630 words)

	St. Louis Steamboats
		The steamboat is the ship of the river, and finds in the Mississippi and its tributaries the simplest theater for the diffusion and display of its power.
		It was smaller than most keelboats and had a small engine supplemented by a crew using poles to push her along.
		They were also greatly improved in the manner of construction, size and speed, so that, in 1837, there were many large boats running...Owing to the rush of emigration at that time, boats could not be built fast enough.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/mo/county/stlouis/steamboat.htm (2551 words)

	Send This Article
		All three have local roots, and ancestors involved in the Civil War steamboat "Sultana" disaster on the Mississippi River in April, 1865.
		He was scalded and drowned aboard the Sultana on his way home from the war.
		He concluded that the Mississippi River channel had shifted by as much as three miles, and that the steamship by that time was buried under a soybean field on the Arkansas side.
	cgi.jconline.com /cgi-bin/resend/printPage.pl?storypath=lafayettejc/columns/200209222local_news1032672640.shtml (817 words)

	Yuzu the voodoo in Ponzu's Sultana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The Sultana cocktail is made with Stoli Vanil, a vanilla-flavored vodka.
		The Sultana is a winner," admits Doc, after taking a sip from the glass.
		Now that was one heck of a disaster, the wreck of the Sultana.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/16/WIGATH8JKO1.DTL (506 words)

	Join the Fun
		From Steamboats on the Western Rivers by Louis C. Hunter.
		Right at the end of the Civil War, the Sultana was embarking on a trip with near capacity of 376 passengers when the captain packed on “...
		The first recorded steamboat on the Mississippi River was the New Orleans, built in 1811 by Robert Fulton's company.
	www3.iptv.org /mississippi/landmarksandlegends/answers.html (3076 words)

	I’m an Evil Genius » Blog Archive » Sultana Disaster: April 1865
		On April of 1865, a steamboat carrying almost 2000 Union soldiers home from the civil war wrecked a few miles north of Memphis and 1,700 died.
		Most of the servicemen aboard were to disembark there.The current was strong and the Sultana was overloaded… fearfully overloaded, with six times as many passengers as she had been designed to carry.
		Somewhere aboard the Sultana was a ten foot alligator in a stout wooden cage… a man-eater… according to soldier gossip.
	honadle.com /blog/?p=173 (2823 words)

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