The Floating Bomb That Killed 800 Soldiers Instantly
Автор: The Financial Time Machine
Загружено: 2026-01-16
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Описание: April 14, 1944. The SS Fort Stikine—a 7,000-ton cargo ship packing 1,395 tonnes of TNT, torpedoes, and two million pounds of gold—became a floating bomb in Bombay Harbour. At 4:06 PM, it detonated with such force that a three-ton anchor was hurled 1,000 yards, a shockwave shattered windows 12 kilometers away, and the blast registered on seismographs 1,700 kilometers distant. Firefighters stood in burning water, refusing to flee, as 27 ships were vaporized and 800 soldiers incinerated in seconds. But this wasn't an enemy strike. It was a catastrophic accident—leaking oil drums stored beneath combustible cotton bales turned our own war supplies into a weapon of mass destruction. The floating bomb was our own creation.
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