List of accidents and incidents involving transport or storage of ammunition
Accidents and incidents involving transport or storage of ammunition include:
- 1634 Valletta explosion, Malta
- An Ottoman ammunition dump inside the Parthenon was ignited by Venetian bombardment in 1687
- 1806 Birgu polverista explosion, Malta
- Leiden gunpowder disaster, in 1807 a ship carrying 17.760 kg of gunpowder blew up in the Dutch town of Leiden.
- Siege of Almeida (1810), a chance shell ignited a line of black powder which set off a chain reaction in the magazine
- Negro Fort, a British-built fort on the Apalachicola River, occupied by fugitive slaves and Choctaws, was destroyed in 1816 when a hot-shot fired by a U.S. gunboat landed in the fort's magazine.
- City Point, Virginia, Union army supply depot sabotaged in 1864 by Confederate Secret Service
- USS Maine (1889), in Havana harbor in 1898 (origin of explosion is disputed)
- Black Tom explosion, 1916 act of sabotage on American ammunition supplies by German agents during World War I
- Kingsland explosion, American munitions factory in 1917
- Halifax Explosion, 1917 ammunition ship explosion that killed over 2,000 people
- Morgan Depot Explosion, American munitions factory in 1918
- Pollepel Island, August 1920 Explosion at Bannerman's Island Arsenal
- Lake Denmark explosion, July 10 1926 detonation of millions of pounds of stored explosives at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey
- Smederevo Fortress explosion, the Wehrmacht stockpile of captured ammunition and gasoline at Smederevo Fortress exploded due to unknown reasons
- Joliet Army Ammunition Plant explosion, a 1942 explosion that was felt 100 miles away
- Air raid on Bari, a port disaster in Italy in 1943
- SS El Estero, ammunition ship that caught fire in New York Harbor in 1943 during World War II
- Naval Station Norfolk, September 17, 1943 accidental truckload explosion of 24 aerial depth charges -killing 40 and injuring 386[1]
- Naval Weapons Station Yorktown VA November 1943 explosion-6 killed[2]
- USS Turner (DD-648), 1943 naval explosion in Lower New York Bay
- Bombay Explosion (1944), explosion on a ship in Bombay Harbour
- SS Paul Hamilton, 20 April 1944, liberty ship carrying cargo of high explosives and bombs-sunk by Luftwaffe
- Soham rail disaster, 2 June 1944, fire and subsequent explosion of a freight wagon carrying high explosives.
- 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
- Naval Ammunition Depot, 27 September 1944 munitions explosions causing nine deaths and extensive damage.
- USS Mount Hood (AE-11), 10 November 1944 explosion of an ammunition ship at Seeadler Harbor, 432 killed
- RAF Fauld explosion, UK underground munitions storage depot in 1944, one of largest non-nuclear explosions in history
- SS John Burke, a Liberty Ship carrying ammunition was hit by a kamikaze pilot and disintegrated in an enormous explosion on December 28, 1944.
- USS Serpens (AK-97), 29 January 1945 explosion of an ammunition ship off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal. US Coast Guard-manned. 254 killed (196 USCG, 57 US Army, and 1 US Public Health Service physician)
- SS Charles Henderson, unloading accident in Bari, Italy, 9 April 1945
- SS Canada Victory, SS Logan Victory and SS Hobbs Victory each with 6,000 pounds of ammunition sank after kamikaze attacks caused an explosion near Okinawa in 1945.
- SS Green Hill Park, 1945 incident in Vancouver similar to El Estero
- Cádiz Explosion, 18 August 1947, in mines and torpedoes depot, ca. 150 killed and large part of the city destroyed
- Prüm, Germany, 15 July 1949, a French Army depot with 500 tons of ammunition explodes, 12 killed
- South Amboy powder pier explosion, New Jersey, 1950
- Explosion of the RFA Bedenham, 27 April 1951 explosion of an ammunition ship in the Port of Gibraltar
- Cali explosion, 1956 explosion of seven army ammunition trucks loaded with 1053 boxes of dynamite, which were parked overnight in Cali, Colombia.
- SS Richard Montgomery, explosive-filled liberty ship wreck, off the UK's Kent coast
- 1973 Roseville Yard Disaster, high-explosive aircraft ammunition and ordnance in military boxcars in a Southern Pacific train consist in its Roseville, California railyard.
- Severomorsk Disaster, 13-17 May 1984, munitions fire at the Soviet naval base, 200-300 killed
- 2008 Gërdec explosions, Albania
- Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion, Cyprus, 2011
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