During World War II that stretch of the coast earned the grim nickname Torpedo Alley when German U-boats sank nearly 400 ships in the area killing over 5000 merchant seamen.

Trawler explosion. Ammonia Trawler Catches Fire Poses Explosion Risk. The sparks made contact with the hot running main engine and ignition took place. A Korean flagged trawler on Tuesday noon was towed away from Montevideo port docks to the bay after it caught fire fearing explosion threats from fuel and ammonia cylinders tanks.

The estimated death toll was 20000. September 26 2019 1104 GMT A Russian trawler with an ammonia tank and carrying about 200000 liters of diesel oil was on fire on September 26 at a. A 38-year-old man and a man in his late 50s were taken.

An unexploded Second World War bomb was hauled off the seabed by a trawler off the North East coast A Navy bomb disposal squad and divers from Clyde Naval Base confirmed the 1000lb explosive. Fifty one years ago this week on July 23 1964 the scallop trawler Snoopy was trawling off Currituck Sound NC. Whittleton 43 7 Brougham Street and Mr.

On the morning of. It rocked the city on a day which should have been among the happiest of the year. A moored Russian trawler in Norway has been capsized in an attempt to stop the ship from exploding after a fire aboard the vessel continued to burn for a second day.

Around 100 people were. Ambulance officers were called to a marina at Scarborough about 1130am AEST after reports of a trawler explosion. The fire led authorities to evacuate surrounding areas because of an explosion risk.

Rune Stoltz BertinussenNTB Scanpix via AP. The men were taken to the Royal Brisbane Hospital with burns to their arms. On Christmas Day 1966 12 crew of the St Finbarr trawler died in an explosion.