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Shipwrecks of the Ohio coast (4 P) Pages in category "Shipwrecks of the Ohio River" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Both ships were sunk and about seventy-four people died. The death toll makes this accident one of the worst Ohio River maritime disasters of all time. On the night of 4 December 1868, sister ships owned by the US Mail Line Company collided on the Ohio River near Warsaw, Kentucky. Confusion among the pilots with the passing signals was the ...
The Lucy Walker steamboat disaster was an 1844 steamboat accident caused by the explosion of the boilers of the steamboat Lucy Walker near New Albany, Indiana, on the Ohio River. The explosion occurred on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 23, 1844, when the steamer's three boilers exploded, set the vessel on fire, and sank it. It was one of a ...
Wooden full-rigged ship owned by the Columbia River Packers Association and used as a cannery tender. [3] Jessie: 28 June 1898 Swamped in turbulent water at the mouth of the Kuskokwim River. 18 miners from the Columbia Exploration Company were believed to have been massacred by Yup'ik Natives or lost with wreck. One person, a trader called Ling ...
Lucy Walker – On 23 October, the sidewheel steamboat was en route from Louisville, Kentucky, to New Orleans when her three boilers exploded; she caught fire and sank mid-stream in the Ohio River about 4 miles (6.4 km) below New Albany, Indiana. Débris and body parts were washed up on both banks of the river.
Shipwrecks of the Ohio River (1 C, 9 P) R. ... Pages in category "Shipwrecks in rivers" The following 156 pages are in this category, out of 156 total.
A stretch of the Ohio River near Pittsburgh remained closed to maritime traffic on Monday as crews equipped with sonar looked for a barge believed to have sunk over the weekend — one of more ...
She was raised and beached on the Indiana side of the Ohio River opposite the mouth of the Salt River, but was a total loss. [10] James Allen United States: The 330-ton, 116.7-foot (35.6 m) whaling bark was wrecked on a rock in Seguam Pass on the east end of Amlia in the Aleutian Islands. One man stayed aboard James Allen and was lost.