During the American Civil War the SS Sultana was destroyed in an explosion on April 27, 1865 as it was transporting released Union POWs near historic Mound City, just east of Marion.

Subjects for the murals were drawn from the history of Vicksburg and the surrounding area and include President Theodore Roosevelt's bear hunt, the SS Sultana, the Sprague, the Siege of Vicksburg, the Kings Crossing site, Willie Dixon, the Flood of 1927, the 1953 Vicksburg, Mississippi tornado outbreak, Rosa A. Temple High School and the Vicksburg National Military Park.

SS Sultana was a Mississippi River steamboat paddlewheeler that exploded on April 27, 1865 in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history.

SS Sultana Memorial at the Mount Olive Baptist Church Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2010.

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The song depicts the events of the SS Sultana soon after the Civil War had concluded.

The explosion of the SS Sultana in 1865 near Memphis is one of the worst marine disasters in history.

* February 28 – Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay.

* SS Aud, a Norwegian steamboat

American sympathizers supplied them with money, provisions, and arms via the steamboat SS Caroline.

* SS Umatilla, a steamboat

SS Ada Hancock, a small steamboat used to transfer passengers and cargo to and from the large coastal steamships that stopped in San Pedro Harbor in the early 1860s, suffered disaster when its boiler exploded violently in San Pedro Bay, the port of Los Angeles, near Wilmington, California on April 27, 1863 killing twenty-six people and injuring many others of the fifty-three or more passengers on board.

He was nearly killed, along with his first wife Rebecca, when the boiler exploded on one of his packet steamers, the SS Ada Hancock, in 1863.

The SS Sansinena was a Liberian oil tanker that exploded in Los Angeles harbor on December 17, 1976.

But the bomb mysteriously exploded a few weeks later, jolting the SS guards.

* SS City of Columbus, a passenger steamer that sailed from Boston to Savannah and sank off Martha's Vineyard

The one incident that resulted in the death of Gibraltarians occurred on 31 January 1938 when the insurgent submarine General Sanjurjo sank the SS Endymion, a small Gibraltar-registered freighter taking a cargo of coal to Cartagena, which was chartered by the Republican government.

On 3 May 1945, one of the biggest disasters in naval history occurred in the Bay of Lübeck when RAF bombers sank three ships-the SS Cap Arcona, the SS Deutschland, and the SS Thielbek-which, unknown to them, were packed with concentration-camp inmates.

* November 12 – The SS Vestris developed a severe starboard list, was abandoned and sank approximately 200 miles off Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA.

* SS Arlington, a steamship which sank in Lake Superior in 1940

* SS London ( completed 1864 ), a steamship which sank in the Bay of Biscay on January 11, 1866

Stanley Lord ( 13 September 1877 – 24 January 1962 ) was captain of the SS Californian, a ship that was in the vicinity of the RMS Titanic the night it sank on 15 April 1912.

* Ernest M. McSorley-last captain of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, Great Lakes iron ore freight vessel that sank in Lake Superior with all hands in November 1975.

In one peculiar case, a British air attack in 1945 sank the German ship SS Deutschland with substantial loss of life.

* SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a freighter that sank on Lake Superior in 1975 with all hands aboard

In 1966, a tramp ship SS Damatis sank near the Marina due to a cyclone in the region.

* SS Cuba ( 1920 ), a ship renamed as SS Cuba in 1920, which sank in 1923

* SS Pacific, an ocean liner that sank off the coast of Washington State in 1875

In 1971, the SS Antilles struck a reef not far off of the island, and sank.

* The passenger liner SS Andrea Doria, which was launched in 1951, had her maiden voyage in 1953 and sank in 1956.

* SS Yarmouth Castle, American steamship that sank in 1965

The coral reefs around Bowen have several shipwrecks, including the SS Gothenburg which sank in 1875 with a loss of more than 100 lives.

Many of these ships sank or were caught, such as the Patria ( Patra ), Struma and SS Bulgaria.

Whitefish Point is the nearest navigation mark to the wreckage of the ore freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in 1975.

The cargo of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975, consisted of approximately 26, 116 long tons of taconite pellets.

* SS Gothenburg, a steam and sail ship which sank off the Australian east coast in 1875

* In 1865 Brunel's ship the SS Great Eastern laid the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable.

* SS Java, a British and French ocean liner built in 1865

* SS Republic of 1853, a ship lost in an 1865 hurricane with a large cargo of gold coins

A number of ships have been wrecked with significant loss of life, such as the Maria in 1851, the City of Dunedin in 1865, the St Vincent in 1869, the Lastingham in 1884, the SS Penguin in 1909 and the Wahine in 1968.

A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.

Five attempts to lay the cable were made over a nine-year period – one in 1857, two in 1858, one in 1865, and one in 1866 – before lasting connections were finally achieved with the 1866 cable and the repaired 1865 cable by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's ship the SS Great Eastern, captained by Sir James Anderson.

* SS Mahratta ( 1865 ), lost in a collision with SS Victoria in 1887 in the River Hoogly.

In this role, he was instrumental in laying the first successful Transatlantic telegraph cable, using the SS Great Eastern ( 1865 / 66 ).

* 1917: Benjamin F. Leavitt of Traverse City, Michigan, dived on the SS Pewabic which sank in in Lake Huron in 1865, salvaging 350 tons of copper ore.

* SS Orizaba ( 1860 – 1865, 1872 – 1875 ): a 1450 ton, wooden hull, side paddle wheel, two masted steamship with accommodation for 1, 028 passengers.

* SS Costa Rica ( 1865 – 1875 ): The Costa Rica operated for Cornelius Vanderbilt from July 1864 until the summer of 1865 on the New York to Aspinwall service.

* SS Colorado ( 1864 – 1878 ): Built for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, launched on May 21, 1864 and sailed from New York for San Francisco on April 1, 1865 with calls at Rio de Janeiro, Callao and Panama City.

* SS Henry Chauncey ( 1864 – 1877 ): Launched October 1864 for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and entered the New York to Aspinwall service on November 1, 1865 and remained on this route until 1869.

* SS Arizona ( 1865 – 1877 ): Built and launched for Pacific Mail Steamship Company on January 19, 1865.

* SS Montana ( 1865 – 1877 ): Launched February 25, 1865 for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.

* SS Atlantic ( 1865 ): In 1865 she made one New York to Aspinwall voyage for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.