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In 1996, following the decommissioning and privatisation of the Royal Naval Dockyard Rosyth, MoD Caledonia was opened on the site of the former dockyard. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Following the Options for Change review and the collapse of the Soviet Union , the reserve unit HMS Scotia was moved from Pitreavie Castle to HMS Caledonia , where it has ...
HMS Caledonia (1807) was a 3-gun brig launched in 1807. She was captured by the Americans in 1812, and put into service as USS Caledonia (1812). HMS Caledonia (1808) was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line launched in 1808. She became a hospital ship and was renamed HMS Dreadnought in 1856 and was broken up in 1875.
Of the estimated 1,300 people aboard, nine survived; 260 bodies were washed ashore. 1,291 1564 Sweden: Mars – A Swedish warship that was sunk 18 kilometres north of Öland during the Northern Seven Years' War. The crown ship of King Eric XIV of Sweden's fleet. The gunpowder store exploded and as many as 1,000 people, including Swedes and the ...
Data has been collected since 1926, in which year there were 4,886 fatalities in some 124,000 crashes. [n 1] Between 1951 and 2006 a total of 309,144 people were killed and 17.6 million were injured in accidents on British roads. [n 2] The highest number of deaths in any one year was 9,169 people in 1941 during World War II. The highest figure ...
Maling River Gorge cable car crash [97] Xingyi, Guizhou, China 14 23 May 2021 Stresa–Mottarone cable car crash [98] Mottarone, Italy 13 12 July 1972 Bettmeralp cable car crash [99] [100] Bettmeralp, Switzerland 12 29 June 2017 Charra Pani cable car crash [101] Charra Pani, Galyat, Pakistan 11 13 February 1983 Champoluc cable car crash [102]
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March 2 – United States – Imperial County car crash. 13 people were killed and 13 others wounded when an SUV and a semi-truck collided in Imperial County, California. March 2 – Bolivia – Colomi bus crash. A bus traveling along Route 7 fell into a ravine, [312] killing 21 people and injuring 17.
The cargo ship exploded in Havana harbor while unloading munitions. 101 people killed and 200 wounded [23] Sunfish United Kingdom: The tug collided with Tower Bridge in London and sank with the loss of one of her six crew. [24]