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The first explosion had set Highflyer free from its moorings, and it had drifted across the harbor, coming to rest against SS Wilson B. Keene. Her crew stayed aboard for an hour before the smoke of the burning oil in the harbor forced them to leave. In the afternoon, two men boarded Highflyer searching for injured crewmembers. They noted that ...
Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys." Coleman's message was responsible for bringing all incoming trains around Halifax to a halt. It was heard by other stations all along the Intercolonial Railway, helping railway officials to respond immediately.
In 1958, the company's president, Arthur B. Homer, was the highest-paid U.S. business executive, and the firm built the first phase of what would become its largest plant, Burns Harbor between 1962 and 1964 in Burns Harbor, Indiana. Aerial view of the world's first 160" Plate Mill at Bethlehem Steel's Burns Harbor plant circa 1964.
The six victims are in their 20s and 30s, and all have extensive burns, according to Dr. Kevin Foster, director of the Arizona Burn Center. Hawaii fireworks explosion victims flown to Arizona ...
A GoFundMe fundraiser set up to help the victims after the ‘devastating explosion’ has raised more than $12,000 4 Employees, Including Mom and Son, Suffer Severe Burns After Their Food Truck ...
The West Loch Disaster was a maritime accident during World War II at Pearl Harbor U.S. Naval Base in Hawaii. The incident, which occurred just after 3 p.m. on Sunday, 21 May 1944, began following an explosion in a staging area for Landing Ships, Tank (LSTs) and other amphibious assault ships in West Loch.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -A fuel truck explosion on a road in Haiti's southern peninsula on Saturday killed 24 people and left half of the 40 injured survivors with third-degree burns, the ...
Aarhus harbor explosion, German ammunition barge explodes in Aarhus Harbor killing 39, 4 July 1944; West Loch disaster, ammunition explosion in Pearl Harbor, two months before Port Chicago; Port Chicago disaster, a deadly munitions explosion that occurred in 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California