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• Each wheel had 26 paddles and was 31 feet in
  diameter. Her maximum speed was about 16 knots.
  Almost from the day of its launching in 1891, the
  General Slocum suffered one mishap after another.
  Four months after her launching, the General
  Slocum ran aground near http//impowersolutions.co
  m/ the Rockaways. Several tugboats were needed to
  drag the General Slocum back into the water. An
  exceptionally bad year for the General Slocum. On
  June 29th, the General Slocum was returning from
  the Rockaways with 4700 passengers on board.
  Suddenly, it struck a sandbar so hard, that her
  electrical generator blew out. In August, during
  a terrible rain storm, the General Slocum ran
  aground a second time, this time near Coney
  Island. The passengers had to be transferred to
  another ship in order to make their way back
  home. The next month the General Slocum hit the
  trifecta when it collided with the tug boat Sayre
  in the midst of the East River. In this incident,
  the General Slocum's steering was severely
  damaged, and it had to be repaired.
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• Captain Van Schaick would later say the reason
  for his decision was that he was trying to
  prevent the fire from spreading on land to
  riverside buildings and oil tanks. But by going
  into heavy headwinds, he was actually fanning the
  fire. Captain Van Schaick later said at his
  trial, "I started to head for One Hundred and
  Thirty-fourth Street, but was warned off by the
  captain of a tugboat, who shouted to me that the
  boat would set fire to the lumber yards and oil
  tanks there. Besides, I knew that the shore was
  lined with rocks and the boat would founder if I
  put in there. I then fixed upon North Brother
  Island." As the boat chugged onward, passengers
  ran in panic around the deck. Mothers were
  looking for their children. Father's were looking
  for their families. Young boys and girls
  scrambled onto the deck chairs, waving
  frantically for help at the crowds who had
  assembled on the shore. The flames increased by
  the second, accelerated by the boat's fresh coat
  of highly flammable paint.

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• At this point, Captain Van Schaick was notified
  by one of his crew that a fire had started in the
  Lamp Room, in the forward section of the boat.
  The fire was probably ignited by a discarded
  cigarette or a match, and it was obviously fueled
  by the straw, oily rags, and lamp oil strewn
  around the room. The Captain had been told there
  was a fire on board a few minutes earlier by a
  Other people on board said the fire had started
  almost simultaneously in several locations,
  including a paint locker filled with flammable
  fluids, and a cabin filled with gasoline. This is
  where Captain Van Schaick made a terrible mistake
  in judgment. Since land was close by, all the
  Captain had to do was run his ship aground before
  the flames spread any further. Then he could
  unload his passengers, mostly woman and children,
  quickly before there were any fatalities. But for
  some reason Captain Van Schaick decided to head
  straight into a headwind and try to land his boat
  at North Brother Island, just off the southern
  shore of the Bronx.

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• The General Slocum was accident free until, when
  the General Slocum collided with the Amelia near
  Battery Park. The General Slocum was carrying,
  what was described as "900 intoxicated Patterson
  Anarchists." Suddenly, some of the passengers
  started to riot. http//impowersolutions.com/
  Others tried to physically take control of the
  boat, by storming the bridge. However the crew
  fought the rioters off and were able to keep
  control of the boat. When the captain docked at
  the police pier, "anarchists" were arrested
  Finally, in June of 1902, the General Slocum ran
  aground again. The boat was unable to be freed,
  so its passengers had to camp out the entire
  night until reinforcements could arrive the
  following morning. The captain of the boat in
  that incident was none other than Captain William
  H. Van Schaick, the same man who would be the
  chief officer of the General Slocum on its last
  voyage. minutes after the General Slocum left the
  pier at East Third Street, it was even with East
  Street.
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