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Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot, Nebraska, 27 September 1944 munitions explosions causing nine deaths and extensive damage. USS Mount Hood, 10 November 1944 explosion of an ammunition ship at Seeadler Harbor, 432 killed; Tolar, New Mexico, 30 November 1944, munitions carried by train exploded, causing extensive damage to town and killing 1.
The timing and location of the event coincides with the reported accident in Archangelsk. [21] Several fishermen stated on sanatatur.ru that they witnessed the accident: one saw a 100-meter column of water rise into the air after the explosion and another saw a large hole in the side of a ship which had been at the site of the explosion.
Unexploded ordnance (UXO, sometimes abbreviated as UO) and unexploded bombs (UXBs) are explosive weapons (bombs, shells, grenades, land mines, naval mines, cluster munition, and other munitions) that did not explode when they were deployed and remain at detonative risk, sometimes many decades after they were used or discarded.
Underwater dump sites off the Los Angeles coast contain World War II-era munitions including anti-submarine weapons and smoke devices, marine researchers announced Friday. A survey of the known ...
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Unknown Faversham guncotton explosion – A guncotton factory in Faversham, one of the British Empire's primary munitions centers exploded. 6 October 1854 United Kingdom: Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, England: c. 53 (in fire and explosion) c. 400–500 (in fire and explosion)
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El Estero had taken on 1,365 tons of mixed munitions on April 24, 1943 and was preparing to depart at approximately 5:30PM when a boiler flashback started a fire on oily water in her bilges which quickly grew out of control. [3] Upper New York Bay with Caven Point Pier (thin white line in the center), where El Estero was moored when it caught fire