The Explosive Haste of the Moselle (1838)

Lloyd’s Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters by James Lloyd, published in 1856, contained an entire section about the Moselle, including the following passage: “The Moselle was regarded as the very paragon of western steamboats; she was perfect in form and construction, elegant and superb in all her equipments, and enjoyed a reputation for speed which admitted no rivalship. Her commander and proprietor, Capt. Perrin, was a young gentleman of great ambition and enterprise, who prided himself, above all things, in that celebrity which his boat had acquired, and who resolved to maintain, at all hazards, the character of the of the Moselle as ‘the swiftest steamboat in America.’”

Ship Name: Moselle 

Year Built: 1838

Nationality: United States of America

Ship Type: Side Wheel Steamship 

Year Wrecked: 1838

Location Wrecked: Cincinnati, Ohio River 

Reason for Wreck: Boiler Explosion 

Lives Lost: At least 136 

Sources: 

https://newspaperarchive.com/the-philanthropist-may-01-1838-p-8/

https://newspaperarchive.com/indianapolis-indiana-journal-may-05-1838-p-2/

https://newspaperarchive.com/pottsville-miners-journal-and-pottsville-general-advertiser-may-12-1838-p-2/

https://newspaperarchive.com/martinsburg-gazette-may-09-1838-p-2/

https://newspaperarchive.com/trumansburg-advertiser-may-16-1838-p-6/

https://newspaperarchive.com/logansport-herald-may-10-1838-p-2/

https://newspaperarchive.com/richmond-indiana-palladium-may-05-1838-p-2/

https://newspaperarchive.com/carlisle-herald-and-expositor-may-08-1838-p-2/

https://newspaperarchive.com/the-madisonian-may-05-1838-p-3/

https://books.google.com/books?id=dSnJMRtk0lMC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=moselle+inquiry+1838&source=gbs_navlinks_s

https://books.google.com/books?id=OZwsAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=captain+perin+moselle&source=gbs_navlinks_s

https://books.google.com/books?id=eJxABLtxX60C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=captain+perin+moselle&source=gbs_navlinks_s

https://books.google.com/books?id=rItfOzjU0g8C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=captain+perin+moselle&source=gbs_navlinks_s

https://books.google.com/books?id=JlYqAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=moselle+ship+explosion+1838&source=gbs_navlinks_s