Remember the Sultana(2018)

movie - first aired/released 2018-04-27 - 96 min - audience 6.5

Documentary, History

Directed by Mark Marshall, Mike Marshall

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.