13 Facts About Eastland disaster

SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours.

Eastland disaster was used primarily as a training vessel on the Great Lakes, and was scrapped after World War II.

On 1 July 1912, another incident occurred when the Eastland disaster had a severe listing of around 25° while loading passengers in Cleveland.

In June 1914, the Eastland disaster was sold to the St Joseph-Chicago Steamship Company, and returned to Lake Michigan for St Joseph, Michigan, to Chicago, Illinois, service.

Eastland disaster had the option of maintaining a reduced capacity or adding lifeboats to increase capacity.

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Eastland disaster was already so top heavy that she had special restrictions concerning the number of passengers that could be carried.

Many of the passengers on Eastland disaster were immigrants, with large numbers from present-day Czech Republic, Poland, Norway, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Hungary, and Austria.

One of the people who were scheduled to be on Eastland disaster was 20-year-old George Halas, an American football player, who was delayed leaving for the dock, and arrived after the ship had overturned.

Eastland disaster's name was listed on the list of deceased in newspapers, but when fraternity brothers visited his home to send their condolences, he was revealed to be unharmed.

Writer Jack Woodford witnessed the Eastland disaster and gave a first-hand account to the Herald and Examiner, a Chicago newspaper.

Eastland disaster was incorporated into the 1999 series premiere of the Disney Channel original series So Weird.

Grand jury indicted the president and three other officers of the steamship company for manslaughter, and the ship's captain and engineer for criminal carelessness, and found that the Eastland disaster was caused by "conditions of instability" caused by any or all of overloading of passengers, mishandling of water ballast, or the construction of the ship.

Eastland disaster was converted to a gunboat, renamed Wilmette on 20 February 1918, and commissioned on 20 September 1918, with Captain William B Wells.