Ship ablaze
Subtitle: the tragedy of the steamboat General Slocum
By: Edward T. O'Donnell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: General Slocum (Steamboat); Fires -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.; Ships -- Fires and fire prevention -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951.
Description: Describes the 1904 disaster aboard the General Slocum, a steamship chartered for a daytime excursion in the waters surrounding Manhattan, the fire that swept through the ship, and the more than one thousand people who died as a result.