Not long after leaving Manhattan on June 15, 1904, the General Slocum caught fire. There were some 1,350 people on board, and many didn't know how to swim.

The General Slocum tragedy took 1,021 lives, but brought about a major upgrading of steamboat safety regulations and a sweeping reform of the United States Steamboat Inspection Service.

St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, central to the German immigrant population in 1904, rented the General Slocum on June 15, 1904, for an annual excursion celebrating the end of the Sunday ...

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The General Slocum steamship disaster was the greatest single catastrophe in New York City’s history until Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001. On June 15, 1904, the Gen. Slocum was taking a ...

STRATHMERE – A memorial service to remember victims of the sinking of the General Slocum will be held on the Strathmere beach at Prescott Street on Friday, June 15 at ...

An equestrian portrait of General Slocum standing on the knoll where he directed the movements of his soldiers in the XII Corps. The general is depicted holding his hat in his proper right hand and ...

FILE - The excursion boat General Slocum lies beached off Hell Gate in New York City's East River, following a fire and resulting panic, June 15, 1904. The disaster cost the lives of 1,030 mostly ...