In the early hours of April 27, 1865, mere days after the end of the Civil War, the Sultana burst into flames along the ...

There are disasters you remember because they are too big, too loud, too public to forget. Then there are the ones that ...

The explosion of the Sultana on April 27 ... blew apart on the Mississippi River near Memphis. It was the worst maritime disaster in American history. Worse than the Titanic, though you wouldn ...

In 1865, the steamer Sultana, carrying freed Union prisoners of war, exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, ...

There are monuments to it in seven states; there’s even a museum in Arkansas ... as a far more famous ship on a subsequent April night in the North Atlantic. The Sultana officially carried ...

Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been ...

Dozens of artifacts from the wreck of the Britannic are to be recovered and prominently displayed at a new archaeological ...