Remember the Sultana (2018)

Name: Remember the Sultana
Director: Mark Marshall
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2018-04-27
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Cast: Sean Astin, Mackenzie Astin, Jim Beaver, Bob Bergen

Documentary History

Director: Mark Marshall

Cast: Sean Astin, Mackenzie Astin, Jim Beaver, Bob Bergen

Runtime96 min

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Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly maintained boat, and the Mississippi River was swollen with spring snowmelt conspired together to create a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the boat’s boilers exploded, causing the worst maritime disaster in US history.

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Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,164 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States history.