Sinking
The New Orleans hit a snag, which punctured the hull, and it sank near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 14, 1814, setting the pattern for the average lifespan of a steamboat of about three years. This is the subject of The Tragically Hip's 1989 song, "New Orleans Is Sinking".
Fulton’s steamboat company moved the engine and machinery to a new hull, which they also named the New Orleans, and it continued the Natchez steamboat trade.
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Famous quotes containing the word sinking:
“We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on its tail, or slowly sinking and returning to the profound darkness which it has lit up momentarily with a wandering light.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“Eternal Venice sinking by degrees
Into the very water that she lights;”
—Edgar Bowers (b. 1924)
“they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands,
Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands,
Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)