PS GENERAL SLOCUM – Disaster and Memory
Feb 01, 2019 brooklyn,brooklyn history,brooklyn organizations,mary a. whalen,portside,portside new york,PS GENERAL SLOCUM,red hook,red hook history,red hook waterstories,waterfront history
By The Red Hook WaterStories team Red Hook has many famous ships associated with it. The GENERAL SLOCUM is probably famous for the saddest reasons of them all. The GENERAL SLOCUM ended service as a sinking fireball June 15, 1904, killing over 1,000, most of them women and children. 1,300 were aboard. That made the […]