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JohnDillworth -> Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/8/2014 12:34:58 PM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMs4IJQVRYM

Schanilec -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/8/2014 1:21:23 PM)
I've seen the clip before. I had always thought it to be the USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploding at Seeadler harbor in the Admiralities. I think the explosion is way to big for a destroyer, unless there was something highly explosive onboard.

Schanilec -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/8/2014 1:28:06 PM)
Oops! Just did a little checking. She was a transport not a destroyer. That explains everything I've been wondering about. Ah, my over 20 year mystery is solved on that explosion. Thank you John.

Terminus -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/8/2014 3:08:05 PM)
Ammunition ships do make for spectacular explosions. Wouldn't catch me in the same postal code as one.

jeffk3510 -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/8/2014 3:46:24 PM)
Ya, she was carrying ammo. Agreed with Terminus.... Wow.

tigercub -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/8/2014 4:18:56 PM)
never seen that one amazing! Tigercub

dr.hal -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/8/2014 7:22:04 PM)
Well that certainly underscores the big bang theory.... wow. It's hard to watch something like that and know that you are watching folks died, much like the Twin Towers.... Reminds me of that ammo ship that exploded in Halifax Harbor in 1917... Killed about 2000. And funny, the ship was the Mont Blanc! Maybe we shouldn't name ships after mountains????

Chickenboy -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/8/2014 7:29:12 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: dr.hal Maybe we shouldn't name ships after mountains???? Volcanoes, no less! Unfortunately, they live up to their names on occasion...[:(]

rustysi -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/8/2014 10:24:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Terminus Ammunition ships do make for spectacular explosions. Wouldn't catch me in the same postal code as one. T, you have a way with words.

mike scholl 1 -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/8/2014 11:53:12 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Terminus Ammunition ships do make for spectacular explosions. Wouldn't catch me in the same postal code as one. Problem is that without them your side is left with nothing but stones and clubs. But you have to respect the men who served aboard these "floating bombs".[&o]

MikeS4269 -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/9/2014 2:41:07 AM)
I spent four months working on one. I remember pulling into Pearl and having to draw concentric circles of "you will destroy this much if you go up" by percentages on the charts and being legally required to do so wherever we went. They tended to park us pretty far from anywhere if they could do so. Not sure it was worth the hazard pay you got, but I was young, and at the time, felt indestructible. This video clip does bring it home just how dangerous those ships can be if properly stimulated.

witpqs -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/9/2014 4:00:31 AM)
"stimulated" - now there's a clinical term! [:D]

rustysi -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/9/2014 5:49:48 AM)
Wasn't there one or more that went up in a remote section of Pearl during the war, or was it just a fire and they were nervous. I seem to remember that they were allocated to an invasion force and were awaiting departure. Also, there was one that went up in the San Francisco Bay somewhere (was it Alameda), I forget more and more.

MikeS4269 -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/9/2014 6:22:54 AM)
It was the Port Chicago Naval Magazine just outside of San Francisco. It was made into a national monument. http://www.nps.gov/poch/index.htm MikeS

tigercub -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/9/2014 8:16:30 AM)
Port Chicago yes that's the one I was thinking of total devastation of the port! Tigercub

Terminus -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/9/2014 9:08:56 AM)
It also became a racial incident.

Terminus -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/9/2014 11:37:28 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: mike scholl 1 quote: ORIGINAL: Terminus Ammunition ships do make for spectacular explosions. Wouldn't catch me in the same postal code as one. Problem is that without them your side is left with nothing but stones and clubs. But you have to respect the men who served aboard these "floating bombs".[&o] The whole sailing around in boats and making war thing is unnatural anyway. I was a rifleman; flying and sailing to war isn't right.

USSAmerica -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/9/2014 12:01:35 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Terminus The whole sailing around in boats and making war thing is unnatural anyway. I was a rifleman; flying and sailing to war isn't right. Ha! I was a sailor on a CV. It's the only way to wage war! [:'(]

Schanilec -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/9/2014 1:21:10 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rustysi Wasn't there one or more that went up in a remote section of Pearl during the war, or was it just a fire and they were nervous. I seem to remember that they were allocated to an invasion force and were awaiting departure. Also, there was one that went up in the San Francisco Bay somewhere (was it Alameda), I forget more and more. I can't recall exactly, But I think it was an LST that went up at Pearl in one of the side bays taking out a couple of other LST's in the blast.

Bobdina1 -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/9/2014 6:34:37 PM)
It happened at West Loch and 163 personal died . http://www.uslst.org/archive_second_pearl_harbor.htm . They were the supply and ammo ships for the Marianas campaign .

Schanilec -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/9/2014 10:33:18 PM)
Exactly, that's it. Thanks.

Dili -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (1/10/2014 6:26:29 PM)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_Explosion_(1944) Or the Bari Air Raid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raid_on_Bari with Mustard Gas for added emotion...

wegman58 -> RE: Never saw this clip before...yikes!! (10/28/2014 5:22:56 PM)
I spent two years on a modern AE (early 80's). Someone said that an analysis was done and if we blew up (just the conventional stuff) in the middle of the ocean it would take eight minutes before the ocean calmed down. The year before I got there someone forgot to put up the canvas guards around one of the elevator shafts. Some guy was on a fork truck with a missile and was headed towards the elevator when he saw it wasn't on that floor. He hit the breaks and while the fork truck stayed on the same deck, the missile not so much. Everyone who saw it KNEW they were dead - nothing like having a missile blow up in the middle of a magazine on an ammo ship. HOWEVER, modern munitions are good at blowing up only when they are supposed to, not when dropped. That said, when I got to the ship (which was based in Norfolk at the time) we were in Earle, New Jersey at the end of a 2.9 mile long pier (since lengthened to 3.1 miles long). Three ammo ships were homeported there as the AEs were moved from the Fleet Concentrations. Nothing like sleeping on top of 6000 tons of munitions for a couple of years.

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