David White was a Mississippi River steamboat that exploded her boilers opposite Port Chicot[1] near Columbia, Arkansas (below Helena) on February 17, 1867.[2] There were an estimated 50[1] to 65 fatalities.[2]David White was racing Mollie Able at the time of the explosion.[3][4]
David White was owned by H.G. Shaw, Charles Davis, and John Davis, who had been associated with the Coleman Scouts Confederate spy ring during the American Civil War; Shaw and John Davis were among those killed.[5]