The sinking of "Himara" on January 19, 1947 off Evia resulted in a loss of at least 383 people and has been dubbed as the ...
The 1967 fire on the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier was one of the most devastating naval disasters in U.S. history. It occurred on July 29, 1967, while the aircraft carrier was stationed in the Gulf ...
The blast consumed everyone near the bow. No witnesses survived to explain what triggered the detonation. A fireball erupted ...
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On the night of Sept. 8, 1923, seven U.S. Navy destroyers ran aground at Honda Point, California. They weren't under attack or in combat. They were conducting a high-speed training exercise along the ...
Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, days after delivering the components of the atomic bomb from California to the Pacific Islands in the most highly classified naval mission of the war, the USS ...
The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975, was among Great Lakes disasters attributed to "the gales of November," as singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot later described them. November ...
The Bay Theater is showing a special presentation of Disaster at Devil’s Jaw, which will benefit the Morro Bay Maritime Museum on Monday, May 19, at 5:30 p.m. The documentary has local significance.