Sultana on History Channel ~~ today!

Subject: Sultana on History Channel ~~ today!
From: Dale Rose
Date: 26 May 99 - 08:20 PM

Even as I am typing this, The History Channel is broadcasting Sultana: The Mississippi's Titanic. It will be repeated at 11PM and 3AM Central time, so I intend to watch (and tape) the next one since I have already missed the beginning.

This is all they have on their site: In April 1865, 2,400 people bound for Memphis boarded the steamship "Sultana" which normally carried 240 passengers. Many were Union survivors of the Confederacy's infamous Andersonville prison. When the overtaxed boiler blew, over 1,800 died in the Mississippi's muddy waters in a tragedy that claimed more lives than the Titanic. [TV G]

Subject: RE: Sultana on History Channel ~~ today!
From: Curtis & Loretta
Date: 27 May 99 - 11:49 AM

I watched the show, just by accident (surfing around), and what an amazing story! And amazing that I had never heard of it before. Apparently, right after the Civil War, it was "just another" huge amount of casualties. Loretta S

Subject: RE: Sultana on History Channel ~~ today!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 May 99 - 06:16 PM

Anent which - and I posted this about a year ago but other people may be reading now - does anyone hva the song about the ROsherville pleasure steamer disaster the chorus to which goes

When the Princess Alice went down off Gravesend reach/Six hundred and forty died together/Not all of them drowned/As the coroner found/Some were poisoned by the black stinking river

Subject: RE: Sultana on History Channel ~~ today!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 May 99 - 06:23 PM

Anent which - and I posted this about a year ago but other people may be reading now - does anyone hva the song about the ROsherville pleasure steamer disaster the chorus to which goes

When the Princess Alice went down off Gravesend reach/Six hundred and forty died together/Not all of them drowned/As the coroner found/Some were poisoned by the black stinking river

Subject: RE: Sultana on History Channel ~~ today!
From: Dale Rose
Date: 27 May 99 - 08:12 PM

I found nothing on the song, but a summary of the disaster can be found here ~~ http://www.readysnacks.mcmail.com/alice.htm I had never heard of it before. (but then, there are a lot of things I have never heard of before) As a result of a collision with another boat, the paddle steamer Princess Anne went down in the Thames on 3 Sep 1878 with the loss of over 600 lives. As mentioned at the bottom of the page, a 1965 book by Gavin Thurston details the incident. I located a couple of used copies at Barnes and Noble in the $15-$20 range.

Subject: RE: Sultana on History Channel ~~ today!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 May 99 - 03:06 AM

Thanx Dale

My previous searches had found nothing. Funny that.