The SS General Slocum. Photo: Wikipedia It was, by all accounts, a glorious Wednesday morning on June 15, 1904, and the men of Kleindeutschland—Little Germany, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side ...

On June 15, 1904, over 1,300 passengers boarded the ship General Slocum for a Sunday church picnic on Long Island. The outing turned into a tragedy when the steamship caught fire shortly after it ...

The PS General Slocum passenger steamboat which listed before it sank after a fire broke out. Over 1,400 passengers, mostly women and children, were onboard. (Wikimedia Commons) By signing up ...

It was a beautiful, sunny morning. And down at a pier on the Lower East Side, more than a thousand passengers were boarding the excursion boat General Slocum for a trip up the East River to a ...

Photos from author’s collection The General Slocum was one of the largest, most majestic and busiest paddlewheel steamboats operating in New York City waters 100 years ago. The General Slocum ...

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On a Wednesday morning in June 1904, a side wheel passenger steamboat called the General Slocum left Manhattan. "It had been chartered by St. Mark's Evangelical Church on the Lower East Side to ...

On June 15, 1904, the mostly German faithful of a Manhattan church boarded the General Slocum, a steam paddle ship that planned to travel from the city to Long Island. But that journey ended in ...

The excursion boat General Slocum was moored to her dock on East 3rd Street on the Lower East Side. It was a big day for the 1,400 passengers who were boarding the ship. Most were women and ...

When she died at age 100 in 2004, she was believed to be the last survivor of the General Slocum ferry disaster. On June 15, 1904, the paddle-wheel steamer General Slocum, chartered by St. Mark's ...

A statue of General Slocum was unveiled at Gettysburg in 1902. Click on the image to see The Post-Standard coverage of the event. (PDF). Henry Warner Slocum was born in Delphi, New York on Sept.