* SS Sultana, a steamboat that exploded and sank in 1865, killing 1, 800 people

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

Steamboat companies saw nationwide railroads as a threat to their business and on May 6, 1856, just weeks after the bridge was completed, a steamboat captain deliberately crashed the Effie Afton into the bridge.

Marlow is an English sailor who speaks of a time when he gained a position to captain a steamboat for an ivory trading company ; his job was to transport supplies, company personnel, and ivory-up and down a large river that snakes its way through a mysterious wilderness.

The manager explains to Marlow that they couldn't wait, and needed to take the steamboat up-river because of " rumours that a very important station was in jeopardy, and its chief, Mr. Kurtz, was ill ." Marlow describes that the manager " inspired uneasiness "-" just uneasiness — nothing more "-Along with the manager, Marlow describes the other Company men at this station as lazy back-biting " pilgrims "-fraught with envy and jealousy.

But it was not until a few hours onwards, while safe navigation was becoming increasingly difficult, that the steamboat was hit with a barrage of sticks-little arrows, everywhere-aimed at the steamboat from the wilderness on shore.

The arrival of steamboat transport was welcomed by pastoralists who had been suffering from a shortage of transport due to the demands of the gold fields.

He was successful in using his bronze screw propeller on an adapted steamboat ( 1829 ).

* Enterprise, a steamboat that participated in the Battle of New Orleans and then demonstrated for the first time by her epic 2, 200-mile voyage from New Orleans to Brownsville, Pennsylvania that steamboat commerce was practical on America's western rivers.

Yachts are different from working ships mainly by their leisure purpose, and it was not until the rise of the steamboat and other types of powerboat that sailing vessels in general came to be perceived as luxury, or recreational vessels.

Even as Chicago Municipal Pier was being built, mass-produced cars and trucks were beginning to wreak havoc on the package freight and passenger steamboat industries of Lake Michigan.

His first job in St. Paul was with a steamboat company, where he worked as a bookkeeper.

Because of his previous experiences in shipping and fuel supply, Hill was able to enter both the coal and steamboat businesses.

Hill undertook to establish a monopoly of the steamboat business ; he was monopolizing coal, socializing with bankers, and buying other businesses at the same time.

The city of Celina is at the junction of the Obey and Cumberland rivers, and was a major port during the steamboat years between Nashville and Burnside, Kentucky.

The result was that the proprietors of the Sons of Commerce placed an order with Boulton and Watt for a new steamboat engine.

There were also a number of other orders for steamboat engines, both for commercial customers and the Royal Navy and Murdoch was in effect the head of this branch of the business, being referred to and deferred to on all aspects of their marine business.

It is not hard to believe Thompson was on a steamboat at some point and saw the inside of it.

In 1877 commercial steamboat transportation became a reality as the Pioneer was brought to the area.

Cochrane was quite wealthy and was the granddaughter of John Fitch, the inventor of the steamboat.

The suit had been brought by the owner of a steamboat which was destroyed by fire after running into the Mississippi river bridge.

After Downing died in July 1852, in a widely publicized steamboat explosion on the Hudson River, Olmsted and Vaux entered the Central Park design competition together, against Egbert Ludovicus Viele among others.

He intended to return to the pass itself to survey it for a road but was killed in the explosion of the steamboat Secretary on San Pablo Bay in 1854 before he could do so.

The Pennsylvania was a side wheeler steamboat which suffered a boiler explosion in the Mississippi River and sank at Ship Island near Memphis, Tennessee, on June 13, 1858.

The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.

* 1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

Picture of Davenport in 1865 ; on the right is the Iowa ( steamboat ) | Steamboat Iowa, which appears in the Seal of Iowa.

Marlow leaves that station with a caravan to travel on foot some two hundred miles deeper into the wilderness-to the Central Station, where his steamboat is based-the steamer he is to captain.

* 1865 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U. S. at the time.

On the steamboat trip upriver, he became ill ; on the 13th he left Brierfield to return to New Orleans.

That summer he met John C. Frémont on a Missouri River steamboat.

* August 17 – The Clermont, Robert Fulton's first American steamboat, leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

* The first steamboat sails on the Ohio River.

During a storm on July 10, 1886, the former Mississippi River boat captain and circus owner ran his steamboat, the 35-ton Reutan, onto a sandbar off Chicago's north shore near the foot of Superior Street.

St. Joseph had good steamboat connections to St. Louis, Missouri and other ports on the combined Ohio, Missouri and Mississippi River systems.

He exported cotton to England, and owned a steamboat on the Tennessee River.

Boulton and Watt had been involved in a minor way with attempts to apply steam power to boats, providing in 1807 for Robert Fulton the engine for North River Steamboat, the first steamboat to run on the Hudson river, ( the boat later referred to as the Clermont ).

* Olympian ( sidewheeler ) A large sidewheel steamboat that operated on Puget Sound, the Columbia River and other parts of the Pacific northwest from about 1884 to 1890

* Northern Light ( sternwheeler ), a steamboat active on Puget Sound circa 1890

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.

* The Gen. " Mad " Anthony Wayne, a side-wheel steamboat, sank in April 1850 in Lake Erie while en route from the Toledo, Ohio, area to Buffalo, New York.

On April 8, he set out from Jefferson Barracks in Missouri, moving up the Mississippi River by steamboat with about 220 soldiers.

Missouri River side-wheel Yellowstone ( steamboat ) | Steamboat Yellowstone struggling over sand bar 1833 -- print based on a painting by Karl BodmerModel of Upper Missouri River stern-wheel steamboat Bertrand ( steamboat ) | Bertrand, which sank on April 1, 1865, after hitting a snag in DeSoto Bend while heading upriver for Fort Benton, Montana Territory

Suffering from tuberculosis and rheumatism, militia captain Ward took a steamboat downriver to New Orleans on April 11.

He departed on a troop train to San Francisco, California on April 1, 1902 to board a steamboat named the Sheridan.

On the night of April 25, in anticipation of the attack, General McNeil ordered the evacuation of women and children via steamboat to a safe location upriver.

After U. S. Marines under Farragut had raised the U. S. flag on the roof of the Mint in April 1862, a professional steamboat gambler named William B. Mumford ascended the roof and tore the flag down.

The novel's title refers to its central character, an ambiguous figure who sneaks aboard a Mississippi steamboat on April Fool's Day.