Make a visit to the Chicago Maritime Museum and you’ll learn much about the popular lake steamboat the “Lady Elgin” and the story of her sinking on Lake Michigan in September of 1860. The Chicago Maritime Museum is located at 310 South Racine in the Helix Building. This is the venue to add to your …
Category Archives: Ship Disasters
The General Slocum / Little Germany
There is a memorial in Tompkins Park in Manhattan Island, New York City, which is there as a reminder of what was, prior to September 11, 2001, the worst disaster in terms of loss of life in New York. The disaster was the burning of the General Slocum steamboat on the East River of New …