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In 1840, the steamboat Lexington of the New Jersey Steamship Navigation and Transportation Company caught fire due to overheated boilers, burned up and sank in what would be the worst steamboat disaster in the History of Long Island Sound. As with several of the topics we've covered, this one has never before been properly told.