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List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1947 Ship State Description Caritas I Belgium: The cargo ship broke in two and sank after being beached in the River Scheldt following a collision with Jan Steen ( Netherlands) on 1 January. Empire Wharfe United Kingdom: The cargo ship arrived at Lagos, Nigeria on fire and was beached in Badagry Creek. Refloated on ...
One person, a trader called Ling, survived to bring word of the wreck to St. Michael. Jessie was towing the barge Minerva and a second unknown barge, which were both lost. Yup'ik Eskimos were said to have looted vessels. [8] Kad'yak Russia: 2 April 1860 A merchant ship that struck a rock off Spruce Island. The wreck was rediscovered in 2003 ...
January 4 – Germany – An express runs into the back of a stationary train between Hanover and Wunstorf, killing 20 people and seriously injuring another 20. [32]January 22 – Canada – The locomotive engineer and the fireman of a Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train are killed at Tapley, Ontario when their engine leaves the tracks pulling the baggage car and a passenger coach with it.
1947 Downers Grove train wreck, Downers Grove, Illinois; 3 killed plus 30 injured [151] [152] 1950s. 1950 Rockville Centre train crash, Rockville Centre, New York ...
By 1947, the United States had launched thousands of top-secret Project Mogul balloons carrying devices to listen for Soviet atomic tests. [1] [2] On June 4, researchers at Alamogordo Army Air Field in New Mexico launched a long train of these balloons; they lost contact with the balloons and balloon-borne equipment within 17 miles (27 km) of W.W. "Mac" Brazel's ranch near Corona, New Mexico ...
The Downers Grove train wreck happened on April 3, 1947, at the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad station in Downers Grove, Illinois. The Twin Cities Zephyr, a high-speed inter-city passenger train, struck a tractor that had fallen from a freight train only seconds before. Three died and over thirty were injured in the wreck.
1947 BOAC Douglas C-47 crash; 1947 BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust accident; C. 1947 Croydon Dakota accident; D. List of accidents and incidents involving the DC-3 in ...
On April 22, 1947, a Douglas DC-3 of Delta Air Lines and a Vultee BT-13 Valiant of the Tuskegee Aviation Institute collided in mid-air above Muscogee County Airport (now Columbus Airport) in Georgia, United States, and crashed. All nine people on board both aircraft, including eight Delta executives, were killed in the accident.