Steamship Pulaski disaster

The Pulaski explodes; From page 170 of the 1848 book The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine by Charles Ellms
History
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Name:	Pulaski
Fate:	Wrecked by explosion, 14 June 1838
Notes:	Approx. 128 lost; 59 saved
General characteristics
Class and type:	Steam packet

The American steam packet Pulaski was lost thirty miles off the coast of North Carolina when its starboard boiler exploded on June 14, 1838.

Among those lost was former Congressman William B. Rochester and the mother and six siblings of Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar.

About 59 persons survived the shipwreck.^[1] The Delaware Gazette newspaper later ran a story about the fortunes of two alleged survivors: Charles Ridge, left penniless after the shipwreck, became engaged to heiress Miss Onslow whom he had saved from the shipwreck.^[2] However, neither person appeared on a list of survivors published two weeks after the wreck.^[3]

References

External links

• June 1838 newspaper accounts of the wreck of the Pulaski
• Wilmington Advertiser June 18,1838
• Niles Weekly Register June 1838
• "Steamboat Disasters and Railroad Accidents in the United States: To which is ..." By Southworth Allen Howland 1840 .pp.47-75
• "The Tragedy of the Seas; Or, Sorrow on the Ocean, Lake, and River, from ..." Charles Elms 1841
• "Historical Collections of Georgia" 1854 by H/George White .pp.353-364
• "The Museum of Perilous Adventures and Daring Exploits: Being a Record of ..." 1859
• {a victim of the Pulaski} "Virginia Genealogies: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland and ..." by Hordance Edward Hayden 1891
• "A Manual of medical jurisprudence, insanity and toxicology" Henry Cadwalader Chapman 1903
• "The Prominent Families of the United States of America" by Arthur Meredith Burke 1908
• "The Loss of the Steamer Pulaski" by Mrs Hugh McLeod {Miss Rebecca Lamar} "The Georgia Historical Quarterly" 1919 .pp.53-95