1848 — Jan 18, Steamboat Yalobusha Burns, Mississippi River, Donaldsonville, LA — 35

— 35 Berman, Bruce D. Encyclopedia of American Shipwrecks. 1972, p. 197.
— 35 Lytle and Holdcamper. Merchant Steam Vessels of the [U.S.] 1807-1868. 1952, p. 221.
— 35 Nash, Jay Robert. Darkest Hours. 1977, p. 681.
— 35 Way’s Packet Directory, 1848-1994: Passenger Steamboats…MS River System. 1994, 492

Narrative Information

Way: “Yalobusha. SW p wh b [Sidewheel packet wood hull, built] Harmar, Oh., 1844…116 tons….Burned and lost opposite Donaldsonville, La., Jan 18, 1848, with loss of 35 lives.” (Way’s Packet Directory, 1848-1994: Passenger Steamboats…MS River System. 1994, 492.)

Sources

Berman, Bruce D. Encyclopedia of American Shipwrecks. Boston: Mariners Press Inc., 1972.

Lytle, William M., compiler, from Official Merchant Marine Documents of the United States and Other Sources; Holdcamper, Forrest H. (Editor, and Introduction by). Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States 1807-1868. “The Lytle List.” Mystic, CT: Steamship Historical Society of America (Publication No. 6), 1952. Accessed 8-16-2020 at:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015018039084&view=1up&seq=8&size=125

Nash, Jay Robert. Darkest Hours – A Narrative Encyclopedia of Worldwide Disasters from Ancient Times to the Present. New York: Pocket Books, Wallaby, 1977, 792 pages.

Way, Frederick Jr. (Author and Compiler), Joseph W. Rutter (contributor). Way’s Packet Directory, 1848-1994: Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America (Revised). Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1999.