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Photo by St. Petersburg Times. Summit Venture was involved in a fatal collision with the original Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay on May 9, 1980. While negotiating a required turn in the narrow channel during a storm, the radar failed, and the freighter struck one of the piers on the southbound span of the 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 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 ...
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At 7:38 a.m. in Florida, the Liberian freighter Summit Venture hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay. [57] A 1,400-foot (430 m) section of the bridge collapsed, killing 35 people. Twenty-three of the dead had been the passengers and driver of a Greyhound bus that had just departed St. Petersburg, Florida as one of its stops on the way ...
Drivers going over the Sunshine Skyway bridge are now paying a little more. Beginning July 1, tolls for using the bridge between Pinellas and Manatee counties increased from $1.50 to $1.75 for ...
The 911 calls of a watercraft crash that killed a 9-year-old boy and his father in the Florida Keys reveal moments of ... “They are outside because they were coming to the bridge and I think my ...
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