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    PS General Slocum was an American sidewheel passenger steamboat built in Brooklyn, New York, in 1891. During her service history, she was involved in...
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  • Slocum may refer to: Bill Slocum, American politician Blanche Slocum, American singer Craig Slocum, American actor Frances Slocum, adopted member of the...
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    Adella Wotherspoon (category PS General Slocum)
    (1901–1904) and Helen Liebenow (1898–1904) died in the fire on the PS General Slocum. Helen's body was never identified and is presumed buried in a mass...
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    rescuing passengers, including up to nine children, from the 1904 PS General Slocum steamboat fire in New York City. Mary McCann immigrated to the United...
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    tuberculosis vaccine after 1945. The island was the site of the wreck of the General Slocum, a steamship that burned on June 15, 1904: 1,021 people died either...
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  • Catherine Uhlmyer (category PS General Slocum)
    2002) was the second-to-last, and the longest-lived survivor of the General Slocum fire of June 15, 1904. She was born as Catherine Uhlmyer in Manhattan...
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    2022, the case was still making its way through the legal process. PS General Slocum steamboat fire mass memorial – commemorates the 1,021 victims of a...
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    Little Germany, Manhattan (category PS General Slocum)
    decline of Germans among the population was accelerated in 1904, when the General Slocum disaster decimated the social core of the population with the loss of...
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  • "Sheldon Lord" (Lawrence Block) published in REAL MEN November 1958. PS General Slocum SS Normandie SS Noronic RMS Queen Elizabeth MS Prinsendam Herbert...
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    clearing of the channel, the building of Hell Gate Bridge, and the PS General Slocum steamship disaster. Under Hellgate Bridge (1999), directed by Michael...
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    on the disaster entitled Switchboard. List of maritime disasters PS General Slocum Sea Wing disaster "The Eastland". Eastland Memorial Society. Archived...
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    were a romantic couple. Emily died at the age of 19 in a fire on the PS General Slocum on June 15, 1904,: 7, 8  after which Schrank identified Ziegler's...
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  • Jar Torre, Luis (November 2009). "Un Desastre a la Española". Revista General de Marina (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 April 2023. Retrieved...
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    disasters in the history of New York City when, in June 1904, the PS General Slocum sank near North Brother Island due to a fire. It was carrying 1,400...
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    hdl:2027.42/34139. PMID 5032925. Wingfield, Valerie (June 13, 2011). "The General Slocum Disaster of June 15, 1904". New York Public Library. Retrieved May 3...
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  • CSS Florida CSS Fredericksburg CSS Gaines CSS General Beauregard CSS General Lovell PS General Slocum CSS General Thompson CSS Governor Moore Stone Fleet Greyhound...
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    (Similar cases were noted earlier in some other shipwrecks, such as the PS General Slocum or TSMS Lakonia cases.) From the forecastle on the port side, it was...
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    cemeteries in Manhattan. The General Slocum Steamboat Fire Mass Memorial, commemorating the 1904 sinking of the PS General Slocum that killed 1,021 people...
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    floating command post at the 1904 sinking of the passenger ferry PS General Slocum, a disaster that killed more than a thousand people. The site is hard...
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    Mary McCann, a 14 year old Irish girl who rescued survivors of the PS General Slocum disaster in 1904. Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, USN - Medal of...
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    to World War I victims. There is also a plaque commemorating the PS General Slocum, which caught fire and sunk in the Hell Gate in 1904, killing over...
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    050) at sea due to enemy action in a single incident. 1,021 1904 PS General Slocum Accident – shipwreck East River near New York City Steamship sank...
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    were injured or killed in the accident. List of shipwrecks in 1976 PS General Slocum Sea Wing disaster SS Eastland "George Prince Ferry Disaster". stcharlesparish-la...
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    in the one-man play "The Hero of the Slocum", based on Eric Blau's account of the fire aboard the PS General Slocum in 1904, one of the greatest U.S. maritime...
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  • inspectors subject to criminal liability.: 345  The 1904 fire aboard PS General Slocum resulted in another Act in 1905 (33 Stat. 1023) to make executive...
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    the hull. Some of the ships they fabricated engines for included PS General Slocum, USS Hendrick Hudson, USS Adirondack and Shady Side. They also built...
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    painter, died of poisoning from paint vapors. A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River killed 1,021 people, in New York's deadliest...
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  • was one of a handful of individuals who survived the June 15, 1904 PS General Slocum passenger steamboat fire at Hell Gate in New York's East River that...
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    "Alexander McDowell McCook". Civil War.org. Retrieved 2010-03-15. "Henry Warner Slocum". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 2010-03-19...
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  • history since the sinking of the PS General Slocum in 1904. "TOLL THIRD WORST IN HARBOR HISTORY; 1,021 Lost on the General Sio-cum in 1904 and 51 to 58 on...
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