Thread: Not local but could go with a bang.

LATER.



Bloody hell, that was some explosion SQ.

"I've got a headache" "Why?" "I was half a mile away & got hit on the head by a Boiler"

With that sort of Cargo Mix she was doomed if something like that happened, & it did.


SS Fort Stikine - Wikipedia

Never mind flying boilers, how about a ship being picked up and dumped ON a wharf. !
- You want a long read ? - pics from the book, including the ships... before and after the bang.
Benjidog Ship Histories|History of Fort Stikine

Another description, scroll to about half-way down, large text box. Jack was the Salvage Officer in Bombay (now Mumbai) harbour at the time.


The First and Last Voyage of the Fort Crevier: Epilogue



https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/showthread.php't=36278 He had the gift of the gab, which it is alleged, was passed on to Yours Truly.
Jack passed away aged 74.

I recall a story about a bar of gold being found some miles away... we know that because.....the Indian Gentleman who found it, handed it it in to Police.

Relatively easy park a barge with crane next to it hook crane to mast then cut using diamond wire cutter we do similar stuff though not salvage often

Good Man. When you have done that the 5 mill is yours (less my cut of course) & the Nation will hold you in the highest esteem.


Bon chance


I recall that method being used to cut up a Car Carrier Ship in the Channel a few years ago but cutting cars is one thing unless they were old Bombs.

Did you see what I did there?




Actually while yours is a good suggestion I think they may be concerned about vibration & bits dropping off & falling into the holds. & through the rusted deck plates.


Wouldn't it be a scream if when they opened her up there wasn't a skerrick of Ammo to be seen. Some London based Chinese Scrap Merchant had collared the lot under cover of darkness.

Especially if it was timed for April Fool's Day.

Originally Posted by Don 130

We need a 'Navy Diver' for this one, then we're set.

Don.

Cheers Don. I was a "Ships Diver" rather than our very cool special forces "Clearance Diver" myself. I did do demolitions to make things go BANG + Gosh that was fun


Little flash bangs we used to signal divers underwater hurt if they went off within a few metres of me when underwater. Playing with power tools and shifting heavy loads like a mast will be a job I would leave to people a lot more skilled or crazy than I am

I would happily blow up a few tonnes (1,400 tonnes)of unstable cluster bombs not playing with them or removing them by hand. The locals there would not like the after effects

Interesting read on the type of bombs you may like

Originally Posted by superquag

Never mind flying boilers, how about a ship being picked up and dumped ON a wharf. !
- You want a long read ? - pics from the book, including the ships... before and after the bang.
Benjidog Ship Histories|History of Fort Stikine

Another description, scroll to about half-way down, large text box. Jack was the Salvage Officer in Bombay (now Mumbai) harbour at the time.


The First and Last Voyage of the Fort Crevier: Epilogue



https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/showthread.php't=36278 He had the gift of the gab, which it is alleged, was passed on to Yours Truly.
Jack passed away aged 74.

I recall a story about a bar of gold being found some miles away... we know that because.....the Indian Gentleman who found it, handed it it in to Police.

Thank you for those Links SQ. Blimey, don't some of those links take you places one would not readily access.


That is my morning buggered for now.

Different times alright although the courage is still the same when it is needed..

That is not an explosion . this is an explosion. From wikipedia

The Halifax Explosion was a disaster that occurred in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the morning of 6 December 1917. SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship laden with high explosives, collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the Narrows, a strait connecting the upper Halifax Harbour to Bedford Basin. A fire on board the French ship ignited her cargo, causing a massive explosion that devastated the Richmond district of Halifax. Approximately 2,000 people were killed by the blast, debris, fires, or collapsed buildings, and an estimated 9,000 others were injured.[1] The blast was the largest man-made explosion at the time,[2] releasing the equivalent energy of roughly 2.9 kilotons of TNT (12,000 GJ).[3]


Mont-Blanc was under orders from the French government to carry her cargo from New York City via Halifax to Bordeaux, France. At roughly 8:45 am, she collided at low speed, approximately one knot (1.2 mph or 1.9 km/h), with the unladen Imo, chartered by the Commission for Relief in Belgium to pick up a cargo of relief supplies in New York. On the Mont-Blanc, the impact damaged benzol barrels stored on deck, leaking vapors which were ignited by sparks from the collision, setting off a fire on board that quickly grew out of control. Approximately 20 minutes later at 9:04:35 am, the Mont-Blanc exploded.


Nearly all structures within an 800-metre (half-mile) radius, including the community of Richmond, were obliterated.[4] A pressure wave snapped trees, bent iron rails, demolished buildings, grounded vessels (including Imo, which was washed ashore by the ensuing tsunami), and scattered fragments of Mont-Blanc for kilometres. Across the harbour, in Dartmouth, there was also widespread damage.[1] A tsunami created by the blast wiped out the community of the Mi'kmaq First Nation who had lived in the Tufts Cove area for generations.


Relief efforts began almost immediately, and hospitals quickly became full. Rescue trains began arriving the day of the explosion from across Nova Scotia and New Brunswick while other trains from central Canada and the northeastern United States were impeded by blizzards. Construction of temporary shelters to house the many people left homeless began soon after the disaster. The initial judicial inquiry found Mont-Blanc to have been responsible for the disaster, but a later appeal determined that both vessels were to blame. In the North End, there are several memorials to the victims of the explosion.
Regards PhilipA

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