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To: NRx

I’m sorry, but this is a cruise boat ON A RIVER, and the Chinese still manage to sink it and kill maybe over 400 people?


41 posted on 06/02/2015 7:26:41 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

A fast moving river I imagine.


43 posted on 06/02/2015 8:08:48 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: VanDeKoik

In 1865 the Sultana sank in the Mississippi River after a steam boiler exploded and the ship burned. The ship had been overloaded with Union soldiers on their way home just after the Civil War. The exact death toll will never be known but it is at least 1500. It remains the deadliest maritime accident in American history.


55 posted on 06/02/2015 1:55:34 PM PDT by rdl6989
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