List of accidents and incidents involving transport or storage of ammunition
Accidents and incidents involving transport or storage of ammunition include:
- Black Tom explosion, a 1916 act of sabotage on American ammunition supplies by German agents during World War I
- Halifax Explosion, a 1917 ammunition ship explosion that killed over 2000 people
- Air raid on Bari, a port disaster in Italy in 1943
- SS El Estero an ammunition ship that caught fire in New York Harbor in 1943 during World War II
- Naval Station Norfolk—1943 truckload explosion of 24 aerial depth charges
- USS Turner (DD-648)—1943 naval explosion in Lower New York Bay
- West Loch disaster—ammunition explosion in Pearl Harbor, two months before Port Chicago
- Port Chicago disaster, a deadly munitions explosion that occurred in 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California
- USS Mount Hood (AE-11)—1944 explosion of Navy ammunition ship
- SS Greenhill Park, a 1945 incident in Vancouver similar to El Estero
- Bombay Explosion (1944), explosion on a ship in Bombay Harbour
- Explosion of the RFA Bedenham, explosion of an ammunition ship in the Port of Gibraltar
- Naval Ammunition Depot—1944 munitions explosions causing deaths of African Americans
- SS Richard Montgomery, explosive-filled liberty ship wreck still sitting off the Kent coast UK as of 2016
- RAF Fauld explosion, explosion at UK underground munitions storage depot in 1944, one of largest non-nuclear explosions in history.
See also
- Ammonium nitrate disasters
- Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions
- List of accidents and disasters by death toll, explosions
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