http://www.trains.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/003/747fgxcm.asp

I found this article by mistake, but damn! what a story! I never heard of this disaster before.

Quite a blast!! I have never heard of that either, but an amazing story.

"On April 16, 1947. The French ship Grandcamp, loaded with 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate, exploded at its dock in Galveston Bay near Texas City, Texas. The blast flung the ship’s 1.5-ton anchor more than two miles, sent a mushroom-shaped cloud 2,000 feet into the air, knocked two aircraft out of the sky, generated a 15-foot tidal wave that drove a 30-ton barge 100 feet inland, and caused a second disasterous explosion the next morning. Altogether 563 persons died and over 3,000 people lost their homes."

Whoa... that's friggin' awsome. Unless the shipping company was responsible for the explosion, the owner of those ammonium nitrate pellets must have had to compensate for all that damage. I'm suprised he stayed in buisness through that.

DAMN!!! I'd like to see that!

That Texas City thing has been dicussed before. It comes on the history channel all the time and is all over the internet.

http://www.sonic.net/~brucel/explosiveincidents.html

http://store.aetv.com/html/catalog/vp01.jhtml;jsessionid=TCAJ2ZPB4OGAQQOXHDDSAO0B022M OIY4?id=42647

http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/metropolitan/txcity/index.html

http://sdsd.essortment.com/texascityexplo_rkvi.htm

hmmm.... That's strange, because I have seen allmost every nasty disaster on history or discovery channel, exept for this one. I notice that the halifax harbour is the most common one I see on the history channel.

Yeah, Ive known that for years now.

Lol, I have never heard of halifax harbour...

i live in texas city, i know all about that disaster, its known as "the texas city disaster", but yeah, we spent around half a semester on that a few years ago in geography...the whole thing is pretty crazy...woo! go TC!

haha...

taco

quote:Originally posted by Agent Boris_KGB:

Lol, I have never heard of halifax harbour...

touché Boris!

Ah Halifax. Now that was quite a nice explosion. Blew out windows 100 km away. Sadly, there were so many deaths.

[This message has been edited by K9 (edited 08-04-2003).]