#moselle

[livesunique]

The Reichsburg Cochem,

Cochem, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

[vintagegermany]

Cochem, Germany 1890/1920

[vintageeurope]

Metz, France 1860/80

[jasonguilbeau]

Bunker - Moselle - France

[theworldatwar]

A US mortar crew target German positions - Halstroff along the Moselle river, France, Dec 1944. US Official Photo EA 45774 (KY). Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive

[vivelafranceblog]

Metz, France: Metz is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand Est region. Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany and Luxembourg, the city forms a central place of the European Greater Region and the SaarLorLux euroregion. Wikipedia

[clove-pinks]

The Explosion of the Steamboat Moselle, at Cincinnati, on the Ohio River, by artist Charles Ellms, 1841 (Public Domain Image Archive).

Moselle exploded in 1838, one of several steamboat tragedies that year in the United States. The steam packet Pulaski was another violent end, also depicted by Ellms:

These disasters help create early federal safety regulations, and the twenty-fifth US Congress passed on July 7, 1838, "An Act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled... by steam."

[michaelschreiner]

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