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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. A.
Shipwrecks of the Mississippi River (1 C, 50 P) ... Pages in category "Shipwrecks in rivers" The following 156 pages are in this category, out of 156 total.
The Andy Gibson was a steamboat that serviced the headwaters of the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Minnesota from 1884 to 1894. After her retirement, the ship was left in a drydock outside her home port of Aitkin, Minnesota, and gradually dismantled for parts. The hull and drydock eventually sank out of sight.
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.
A barge that sank in the Mississippi River during Hurricane Betsy. The barge was raised on 12 November 1965. [22] New York: 7 September 1846 Sunk in a hurricane off the coast while carrying $40,000 in gold and silver. 17 people out of 53 passengers/crew perished. [23] Robert E. Lee United States: 30 July 1942 A passenger freighter torpedoed by ...
Historically low water levels in the Mississippi River, a major shipping route, led to multiple discoveries. A 19th-century shipwreck and human remains were uncovered as the Mississippi River ...
It was used to ferry people and horse-drawn wagons across the river in the days before bridges were built, th Historically low water levels in the Mississippi reveal shipwreck from 1915 Skip to ...
Shipwrecks of the Mississippi River (1 C, 50 P) Shipwrecks of the Missouri River (6 P) N. Shipwrecks of New York (state) (2 C, 10 P) O. Shipwrecks of the Ohio River ...