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An ironclad warship that was run aground by USS Mississippi in the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. CSS McRae Confederate States Navy: 28 April 1862 A gunboat that took heavy damage in a battle with USS Iroquois, and was scuttled off Algiers. MTC-602: 9 September 1965 A barge that sank in the Mississippi River during Hurricane Betsy. The ...
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Pages in category "Shipwrecks of the Mississippi River" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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The laws on the books in Mississippi also provide the death penalty for aircraft hijacking under Title 97, Chapter 25, Section 55 of the Mississippi Code, but in 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kennedy v. Louisiana, that the death penalty is unconstitutional when applied to non-homicidal crimes against the person. However, the ruling ...
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Mississippi Legislature; Digital Public Library of America. Assorted materials related to Mississippi Legislature; Internet Archive. Assorted items related to Mississippi Legislature "Guide to Law Online: U.S. Mississippi: Legislative", guides.loc.gov, Washington DC: Library of Congress
Maritime law is inherently international, and although salvage laws vary from one country to another, generally there are established conditions to be met to allow a claim of salvage. [1] The vessel must be in peril, either immediate or forthcoming; the "salvor" must be acting voluntarily and under no pre-existing contract; and some life or ...
Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,164 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States history. Constructed of wood in 1863 by the John Litherbury Boatyard [1] in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sultana was intended for the lower Mississippi cotton trade.