George Prince Ferry Memorial

Coast Guard investigators found the George Prince left the dock and entered the channel with no horn signal and no lookout, one of its two radars switched off. Pilot Egidio Auletta's blood alcohol was 0.09 percent, under the 1976 limit. The tanker Frosta's pilot was also found negligent. Of 96 aboard, 78 died and 18 lived; sixteen survivors stood on the overturned hull until they crossed to the sister ferry Ollie K. Wilds. Settlements passed $24 million. The ferry was raised and never sailed again.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — 0.4 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 17 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• Whitney Plantation — 18 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 18 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.

More markers nearby

• Hale Boggs Bridge — steps away
• Destrehan Manor House — 0.4 mi
• Ormond Plantation — 0.4 mi
• Watercolors — 0.4 mi