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December 6, 2019
- It was released in the United States on December 6, 2019.
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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...
Apr 16, 2012 · Learn about key events in history and their connections to today. On April 16, 1947, America’s worst harbor explosion occurred in Texas City, Tex., when the French ship Grandcamp, carrying...
The firetruck at left (behind the man) was thrown there by the second explosion. Photo taken April 18, 1947. (Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. UH Digital Library) APRIL 16, 2012 — On a cool April morning in 1947, the S.S. Grandcamp sat docked in Texas City, waiting as it was loaded with sacks of ammonium ...
Jul 1, 1995 · Updated: July 1, 1995. Texas City Disaster. 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 ...
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.
Exhibits. 1947 Texas City Disaster. Fire on the Grandcamp. Local longshoremen began loading the sacks of fertilizer onto the ship on April 11, the day of the ship's arrival. By April 16, the day of the first explosion, around 2,300 tons had already been set into cargo holds 2 and 4. Heavy rains slowed the loading of the ship.
