Eclipse (steamboat) explained

The Eclipse was a river steamboat of the United States. Her boilers exploded on the Tennessee River at Johnsonville, near Paducah, Kentucky, on January 27, 1865, resulting in 38 killed.^[1] The deaths and severe injuries resulting from the explosion essentially wiped out a U.S. Army unit, the 9th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery.^{[2] [3]}

There were at least 13 American steamboats that were called Eclipse.^[4]

See also

• Sultana (steamboat)
• List of boiler explosions
• 1865 in the United States

Notes and References

1. Ullrich . Dieter . 2020 . The Explosion of the Steamer Eclipse . West Tennessee Historical Society Papers . 74 . 54–72 . Faculty Research at Morehead State University.
2. Book: Tennessee in the Civil War: Selected Contemporary Accounts of Military and Other Events, Month by Month . 2014-01-10 . McFarland . 978-0-7864-8567-3 . 254 . en.
3. News: 1865-01-30 . THE WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST.; Steamboat Explosion and Loss of Life Capture of a Band of River Depredators. Railroad Accident. . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-06-28 . 0362-4331.
4. Gudmestad . Robert . Fall 2012 . A History of the Steamboat Eclipse . Ohio Valley History . 12 . 3 . 21–42 . .