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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 ...
The Kentucky was a 19th-century sidewheel steamboat of the Ohio River, Mississippi River, and Red River of the South in the United States. Kentucky was involved in not one, not two, but three serious accidents over her lifespan (1856–1865), which resulted in the deaths of one, 20+, and 50+ people, respectively.
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.
The infamous Ohio River camper sits on a sandbar on July 28, 2022. It caused a stir throughout the during its multi-day stay. High water eventually overtook it, and it broke up as crews attempted ...
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A river gunboat that struck a naval mine in the Yazoo River. The wreck was raised in 1964 and is currently on display at Vicksburg National Military Park . 32°22′33″N 90°52′0″W / 32.37583°N 90.86667°W / 32.37583; -90.86667 ( USS Cairo