Topic starter
15/12/2011 9:24 pm
Would anyone know if there are any books written about Captain Pres. Lodwick, the first Captain and designer of The Sultana??
Mark Willoughby
16/12/2011 5:49 am
hi Mark
a captain Preston Lodwick is mentioned on pages 519 and 520 of E. W. Gould's Fifty years on the Mississippi. He is also mentioned in the first 9 pages of Disaster on the Mississippi by Gene Eric Salecker. He also appears in Fred Way's Packet Directory on 9 different boats. That should give you a little bit about his live. I can likely find some information of his relationship to the other Lodwick Captains
Utah riverrat
21/12/2011 10:14 am
Capt. Preston Lodwick
Mark, there are a couple of paragraphs about Capt. Lodwick in the book "The Sultana Tragedy" by Jerry O. Potter, pages 4-5. Most of this deals with his building the boat, and his earnings with her. It says, too, that he sold SULTANA to William A. Thornburg, J. Cass Mason, and Namson, Damerson & Company of St. Louis on 7 March 1864. The were the owners when she exploded above Memphis in April 1865. Not much here, but I hope it helps you.