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General Slocum - steamship
General Slocum - steamship
The 1935 obituary of Wilhelmina Kratsch Gronholz stated she was a "survivor of the Slocum disaster".
General Slocum was a steamship launched in 1891. She caught fire on June 15, 1904 in New York's East River.

St. Marks Lutheran Church in the East Greenwich Village neighborhood of Little Germany chartered the General Slocum for a voyage to… 
 
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Lusitania, post card
Lusitania, post card
Lusitania was built by John Brown & Co. of Clydebank and was launched in 1906. The first British four-stacker, Lusitania was also the world's first quadruple screw steamer and the first ship to exceed 30,000 tons. Substantial modifications were made to the Liverpool Landing Stage to accommodate her great size. Lusitania made her maiden voyage from…