As the Canadian paddle-wheel steamer Comet was pulling away from the Customs House dock in Oswego at 3 p.m. on April 21, 1851 ...

Three crew members were injured and taken to Kew Hospital in Invercargill.

The sternwheel packet Arkadelphia City suffered a catastrophic boiler explosion on the Ouachita River, about twelve miles below Arkadelphia. Six crewmen -- her mate and five deckhands -- were kill ...

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KOCHI: One worker died and four others suffered grievous burn injuries in a massive steam boiler explosion at an eatery in Kaloor, Kochi, on Thursday evening. The deceased has been identified as ...

The steamer H.R.W. Hill, bound from Memphis to New-Orleans, exploded on Wednesday night. Thirty persons were killed, and forty to fifty scalded. Advertisement ...

They are the burning of the Steamer Eliza Battle in 1858, the boiler explosion of the Fanny W. in 1878, the burning of the W.H. Gardner in 1887 and the explosion of the James T. Staples in 1913.

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The middle boiler had a lack of water ... Island’s beloved Island Queen. The first steamboat was lost to fire in 1922. The second to an explosion touched off by a welding torch in 1947; 19 ...

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The biggest danger facing steamboats was boiler explosion ... A few weeks before the explosion, a group of the major steamboat operators formed a monopoly called the California Steam Navigation ...