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The Steamship Pulaski disaster was the term given to the June 14, 1838, explosion on board the American steam packet Pulaski, which caused her to sink 30 miles (48 km) off the coast of North Carolina with the loss of two-thirds of her passengers and crew.
The Lamar family relocated from Augusta to Savannah, where Gazaway and a group of investors built the steam packet Pulaski in 1837. In June 1838, the Lamar family became victims of the Pulaski disaster off the coast of North Carolina, en route from Savannah to Baltimore. The ship's starboard boiler exploded and sank in only 45 minutes.
The steamship Pulaski was built by John A. Robb. She exploded in the Steamship Pulaski disaster. On July 19, 1837, John A. Robb & Co. built a steam dredge boat for the United States Government for deepening the harbor at Ocracoke, North Carolina. [8] In August 1837, he built the barqueJohn A. Robb for New Orleans pilots. Captain Bennett was in ...
USS Pulaski, was a side-wheel steamship, in service with the United States Navy. She was named for Casimir Pulaski. Named Metacomet when built for commercial owners in 1854, she served as USS Pulaski from 1858 to 1863, when she was sold by the Navy. Metacomet was built at New York City.
City of Seattle (steamship) City of Taunton (ship) SS City of Topeka; SS Cleveland; SS Cockaponset; SS Cokesit; SS Columbia (1880) SS Columbia (1902 steamboat) SS Colvile; SS Comet (1857) SS Commodore; USRC Commodore Perry (1865) USRC Commodore Perry (1884) Conestoga (ship) HMY Conqueror II; SS Conte Biancamano; SS Conte Grande; SS Coptic; SS ...
The SS United States, the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic, will meet its final resting place in the Gulf off the coast of Florida.
SS Czar [a] was an ocean liner for the then Russian American Line before World War I. In 1920–1930, the ship was named Estonia for the Baltic American Line, then named PuĊaski for the PTTO (later Gdynia America Line) and as a UK Ministry of War Transport troopship, and as Empire Penryn after World War II.
A man whose wife was on the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C. has revealed the final text he received from her before the crash.. On ...