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December 6, 2019
- It was released in the United States on December 6, 2019.
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The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions.
Oct 4, 2024 · Texas City explosion of 1947, industrial disaster sparked by the fire and explosion of the SS Grandcamp on April 16–17, 1947, in Texas City, Texas. The blast set off a chain of fires as well as a 15-foot (4.5-metre) tidal wave. Between 400 and 600 people were killed, with as many as 4,000 injured.
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Apr 15, 2009 · April 16, 1947: Ship Explosion Ignites 3-Day Rain of Fire and Death. 1947: A cargo ship explodes at dockside in Texas City, Texas. The blast and the fires that follow kill about 600 people...
Jul 1, 1995 · One of the worst disasters in Texas history occurred on April 16, 1947, when the ship SS Grandcamp exploded at 9:12 A.M. at the docks in Texas City. The French-owned vessel, carrying explosive ammonium nitrate produced during wartime for explosives and later recycled as fertilizer, caught fire early in the morning, and while attempts were being ...
Apr 16, 2012 · On April 16, 1947, America’s worst harbor explosion occurred in Texas City, Tex., when the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up, devastating...
Fire captains and crewmen urgently struggle to suppress the smoke and fire building inside the Grandcamp. Photo courtesy of the Moore Memorial Library and the Portal to Texas History, ntbkb-019. The cloud of smoke in this photograph, taken from a Galveston rooftop, explains why many descriptions compared the Grandcamp
Nov 13, 2009 · A giant explosion occurs during the loading of fertilizer onto the freighter Grandcamp at a pier in Texas City, Texas, on April 16, 1947. Nearly 600 people lost their lives and thousands...
