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Released
Production
River Rock Entertainment LLC
Aired
2018-04-27
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 boatâs boilers exploded, causing the worst maritime disaster in US history.
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