The SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago. She was owned by the St Joseph-Chicago Steamship Company and made money ferrying people from Chicago to picnic sites on the shores of Lake Michigan. The Eastland was launched in 1903, it was designed to carry 650 passengers, but major construction and refitting in 1913Continue reading “The Eastland Disaster”
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