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Cahaba Prison and the Sultana disaster / William O. Bryant.
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Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1990.
1990
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The Sultana tragedy : America's greatest maritime disaster / Jerry O. Potter.
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Gretna [La.] : Pelican Pub. Co., 1992.
1992
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The final voyage of the Central America, 1857 : the saga of a gold rush steamship, the tragedy of her loss in a hurricane, and the treasure which is now recovered / by Normand E. Klare.
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Spokane, Wash. : Arthur H. Clark Co., 1992.
1992
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The sinking of the Laconia : a tragedy in the battle of the Atlantic / Frederick Grossmith.
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Stamford : P.Watkins, c1994.
1994
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Disaster on the Mississippi : the Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865 / Gene Eric Salecker.
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Anapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, c1996.
1996
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The great Thames disaster.
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London, G. Allen & Unwin [1965]
1965
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Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters of the western waters ...
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Cincinnati, O., J. T. Lloyd & Co., 1856.
1856
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A letter to the Hon. Daniel Webster, on the causes of the destruction of the steamer Lexington : as discovered in the testimony before the coroner's jury in New York / by a Traveller [Henry R. Cleveland].
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Boston : Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1840.
1840
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Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. / by S. A. Howland.
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Worcester, Mass. : Dorr, Howland, 1840.
1840
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Narrative of the burning of the "Sarah Sands" screw steam ship, with the head quarters of H. M. 54th Regiment on board. By a late 54th officer.
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London, Bemrose and Sons, 1870.
1870
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New York's awful steamboat horror ...
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New York, Memorial pub. house, c1904.
1904
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New York's awful excursion boat horror / told by survivors and rescuers ; edited by John Wesley Hanson.
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S.l. : s.n.], 1904.
1904
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Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : To which are appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc.
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Worcester : Warren Lazell, 1846, c1842.
1846-1842
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Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters : containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power ; the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton...history of the early steamboat navigation on western waters ; full accounts of all the steamboat disaster ; a complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes, maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ; lists of plantations on the Mississippi River ; one hundred engravings and forty six maps / by James T. Lloyd.
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Cincinnati, O. : J.T. Lloyd & Co., 1856.
1856
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The danger of misinterpreting and disregarding the lessons of calamity : a discourse suggested by the burning of the steamer Henry Clay, delivered in Yonkers, August 8th, 1852 / by D. M. Seward.
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New York : C. W. Benedict, 1852.
1852
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The voice of God in calamity; or, reflections on the loss of the steamboat Home, October 9, 1837 : a sermon delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church, Charleston, on Sabbath morning, October 22, 1837 / by the Rev. Thomas Smyth.
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Charleston [S.C.] : Printed and published by Jenkins & Hussey, 1837.
1837
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An address, delivered April 11, 1845, in the Second Presbyterian Church, Albany, on occasion of the interment of Mr. William Davis, Misses Lucinda and Anna Wood, and Miss Mary Anne Torrey, who perished in the wreck of the steam boat Swallow, on the evening of the 7th. By William B. Sprague ...
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Albany, Erastus H. Pease, 1845.
1845
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A minute and circumstantial narrative of the loss of the steam-packet Pulaski, which burst her boiler, and sunk on the coast of North-Carolina, June 14, 1838 : with many affecting incidents connected with that disastrous event, by which nearly one hundred persons lost their lives!
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Providence : H. H. Brown, 1839.
1839
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La tragedia del Lago Llanquihue / [Martín Moreno].
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[S.l. : s.n., 1931?]
1931
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Disaster on Devil's Bridge. By George A. Hough.
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Mystic, Conn., Marine Historical Association [1963]
1963
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| FormatText | Call numberTRA (Marine Historical Association, Mystic, Conn. Publication) no. 42 (1963) | Item locationOffsite |
Loss of the Sultana and reminiscences of survivors / edited by Chester D. Berry ; with a new foreword by David Madden.
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Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2005.
2005-1892
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The Eastland disaster / Ted Wachholz in association with the Chicago Historical Society and the Eastland Disaster Historical Society.
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Charleston, SC : Arcadia, c2005.
2005
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Titanic reference map : the first complete map of the world's most famous shipwreck / Hedberg Maps, Inc. ; [Nate Case, editor ; Demetri Debe, research ; Atlantic sea floor image by Lawrence Andreas.].
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[Minneapolis] : Hedberg Maps Inc., c2004.
2004
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Troubled waters : steamboat disasters, river improvements, and American public policy, 1821-1860 / Paul F. Paskoff.
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Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.
2007
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Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States [microform] / to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, &c.
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Worcester [Mass.] : Dorr, Howland, 1840.
1970-1840
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Journal for the seventeenth annual excursion of St. Marks Evan. Lutheran Church : 323-327 6th Street, New York, Wednesday, June 15, 1904.
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[New York : St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1904]
1904
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28 mai 1940 : le jour où le Brazza s'est englouti / Michèle Raclot ; préface de Jacques Schirmann.
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Paris : Harmattan, c2010.
2010
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A full and particular account of all the circumstances attending the loss of the steamboat Lexington in Long-Island Sound on the night of January 13, 1840 [electronic resource] : as elicited in the evidences of the witnesses examined before the jury of inquest held in New-York immediately after the lamentable event.
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Providence [R.I.] : H.H. Brown and A.H. Stillwell, 1840.
1840
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Awful calamities, or, The shipwrecks of December 1839 [electronic resource] : being a full account of the dreadful hurricanes of Dec. 15, 21 & 27, on the coast of Massachusetts.
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Boston : Press of J. Howe, 1840.
1840
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Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States [electronic resource] : to which are appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. / [by S.A. Howland].
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Worcester : W. Lazell, 1846 [c1842]
1846-1842
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A warning voice from a watery grave!, or, A solemn proof of the uncertainty of life and importance of an early preparation for death! [electronic resource] : in the instance of the melancholy and untimely fate of the much esteemed and lamented Miss Sophia W. Wheeler, who was one of the many unfortunate victims who perished by the awful conflagration on board the ill-fated steamboat Lexington on her passage from New-York to Stonington, Jan. 13, 1840 / [by C. Weild].
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New-York : Printed for the publisher by Sackett & Sargent, 1840.
1840
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A sermon occasioned by the loss of the Harold and the Lexington [electronic resource] : delivered at the Odeon, January 26, 1840 / by William M. Rogers.
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Boston : Printed by Perkins & Marvin, 1840.
1840
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A sermon occasioned by the loss of the Harold and the Lexington [electronic resource] : delivered at the Odeon, January 26, 1840 / by William M. Rogers.
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Boston : Printed by Perkins & Marvin, 1840.
1840
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Aetna [electronic resource] : a discourse delivered in the New-York City Hospital, on Lord's day morning, May 23, 1824 : intended as a moral improvement of the calamity occasioned by the bursting of the boiler of the steam-boat Aetna, by which several lives were lost : and, out of the nine persons brought to this hospital, three only survived : to which is added, some account of their last hours / by John Stanford.
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New-York : Printed by E. Conrad, 1824.
1824
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A sermon, occasioned by the burning of the steamer Lexington [electronic resource] : preached in St. Paul's Church, Boston / by John S. Stone.
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Boston : Printed by Perkins & Marvin, 1840.
1840
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Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States [electronic resource] : to which are appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc.
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Worcester : W. Lazell, 1843.
1843
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Hudson River steamboat catastrophes : contests & collisions / J. Thomas Allison.
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Charleston, SC : The History Press, [2013]
2013
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| FormatText | Call numberIRM (Hudson River) 14-4672 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters of the western waters [electronic resource] : containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power, the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton history of the early steamboat navigation on western waters full accounts of all the steamboat disasters : a complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers list of plantations on the Mississippi river / by James T. Lloyd.
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Cincinnati : J.T. Lloyd, 1856.
1856
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Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPLShips' news : Scrapbook.
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New York, N.Y. : New York Public Library, 1934.
1934
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Memorial of sundry proprietors and managers of American steam vessels, on the impolicy and injustice of certain enactments contained in the law relating to steamboats, asking to be restored to the rights and privileges which belonged to other citizens engaged in navigation.
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New York, 1840.
1840
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| FormatText | Call number*C p.v. 237 no. 1-10 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The march of time : radio broadcast, 1937-04-15.
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1937.
1937
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The March of time : radio broadcast, 1937-11-18.
Audio
1937.
1937-1118
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The march of time : radio broadcast, 1937-04-22.
Audio
1937.
1937
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Memorial of sundry proprietors and managers of American steamvessels [sic] on the impolicy and injustice of certain enactments contained in the law relating to steamboats, and asking to be restored to the rights and privileges which belong to other citizens engaged in navigation.
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[Washington] : Blair & Rives, printers, [1840]
1840
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Troubled waters [electronic resource] : steamboat disasters, river improvements, and American public policy, 1821-1860 / Paul F. Paskoff.
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Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.
2007
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View all available online resourcesFrozen voices : a historical novel / by Lynne Heinzmann.
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Moorhead, MN : New Rivers Press, [2016]
2016-2016
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