Burning Steamboats: The Maritime Devastation of the General Slocum

What happens when a wooden passenger ship, loaded with women and children for a church picnic, catches fire in the middle of a major river, and the safety equipment turns out to be entirely fake? The burning of the PS General Slocum in 1904 remains the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in New York's history. As a fire erupted in the lamp room, the horrific reality of corporate cost-cutting b...