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:
“I dream of a Ledaean body, bent
Above a sinking fire,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“We of the sinking middle class ... may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose but our aitches.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Eternal Venice sinking by degrees
Into the very water that she lights;”
—Edgar Bowers (b. 1924)