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The collapsed bridge and MS Star Clipper: Sunshine Skyway Bridge: near St. Petersburg, Florida: United States 9 May 1980: Steel cantilever bridge The freighter Summit Venture struck the bridge during a storm, causing the center section of the southbound span to collapse into Tampa Bay 35 killed, 1 injured
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, officially referred to as the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, is a pair of long beam bridges with a central tall cable-stayed bridge. It spans Lower Tampa Bay to connect Pinellas County (St. Petersburg, Florida) to Manatee County (Terra Ceia, Florida). The current Sunshine Skyway opened in 1987 and is the second ...
Skyway Fishing Pier State Park is a Florida State Park located on the north and south sides of the mouth of Tampa Bay. When the original cantilevered Sunshine Skyway Bridge, carrying I-275 , partially collapsed in 1980, due to the collision of a freighter on one of its pilings, it was replaced by the current bridges. The approaches to the old ...
Demolition of steel and concrete girders of the old Sunshine Skyway Bridge, 1990. In 1990, the FDOT awarded a bid to Hardaway Company (owner of Controlled Demolition, Inc.) to demolish all steel and concrete sections of the old Sunshine Skyway spans. [4]
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There he rigged up his brand new 13 Fishing AL6.0 reel on a nine-foot Star Paraflex Surf fishing rod with 50 pound leader and tossed out a 10 inch mullet toward the big Skyway bridge.
USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) was a 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tender (WLB) which sank in 1980 in a collision near the Tampa Bay Sunshine Skyway Bridge, resulting in 23 crew member fatalities. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] An Iris -class vessel, she was built by Marine Ironworks and Shipbuilding Corporation in Duluth , Minnesota .
The deadliest such collision in the U.S. occurred in 1980, when a cargo ship rammed into the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay, Florida, bringing it down and killing 35.