The steamboat Pennsylvania was a side wheeler steamboat which suffered a boiler explosion in the Mississippi River and sank at Ship Island near Memphis, Tennessee, on June 13, 1858. == Construction and career == Built in 1854, the Pennsylvania was capable of carrying a full 486 tons of cargo.
The steamboat Pennsylvania was a side wheeler steamboat which suffered a boiler explosion in the Mississippi River and sank at Ship Island near Memphis, Tennessee, on June 13, 1858. == Construction and career == Built in 1854, the Pennsylvania was capable of carrying a full 486 tons of cargo.
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