Tragedy to Triumph: The Story of the General Slocum Disaster and the Right to Swim for Women The General Slocum disaster in 1904 was the greatest single catastrophe in New York City's history until ...

The centennial of the General Slocum disaster provides an opportunity to ask a probing question: how did a disaster which claimed the lives of 1,021 people in the nation's largest metropolis become an ...

New York has been the site of more than 2,000 shipwrecks and marine accidents. The most infamous of them all took place 100 years ago this month amid the deadly swirling currents of Hell Gate when a ...

Adella Wotherspoon, believed to be the last survivor of the deadly 1904 fire and sinking of the excursion ferry General Slocum, has died. She was 100. Mrs. Wotherspoon died Jan. 26 at a convalescent ...