SS St. Nicholas
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The SS St. Nicholas was a Mississippi River steamboat that suffered a catastrophic boiler explosion on April 24, 1859, near Island 60[1] or St. Francis Island.[2] The death toll was believed to be between 45[3] and 75.[4]
In January 1859, a sidewheeler steamboat called St. Nicholas may have transported captives from the Wanderer (illegal slave ship) from Montgomery down the Alabama River.[5]