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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“We ask for no statistics of the killed,
For nothing political impinges on
This single casualty, or all those gone,
Missing or healing, sinking or dispersed,
Hundreds of thousands counted, millions lost.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
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Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)