[2] Her starboard boiler exploded about 11 p.m., causing massive damage as the ship was traveling from Savannah, Georgia, to Baltimore, Maryland; she sank in 45 minutes.

[3] The packet steamer Pulaski, bound for Baltimore, Maryland, departed Charleston, South Carolina on June 14, 1838, under Captain DuBois, with a crew of 37 and 131 passengers on board.

Her husband and their eldest son Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar were the only members of the immediate family to survive.

[6] However, neither of these persons was listed among the survivors in a June 27 North-Carolina Standard article published two weeks after the wreck.

[2] In January 2018 divers reported that they believed they had found wreckage of Pulaski 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) off the North Carolina coast.