(History.com) Later on in the 1900 hundreds, there were several more reports of ships being hit by what was said to be a freak wave or rogue wave. One of the most famous ships to get hit by a rogue wave was the Queen Mary. In 1942 while carrying 15,000 American troops 608 nautical miles (700 mi/1,126 km) from Scotland during a gale, RMS Queen Mary was broadsided by a 92-foot (28 m) wave and nearly capsized. Queen Mary listed briefly about 52 degrees before the ship slowly righted herself. (live science.com) One of the most memorable rogue wave occurrences was on October 30, 1991.
She was now on her way to drop off the uranium at Leyte, but not before they had to pick up even more sailors in Guam. About one o’clock in the morning while positioned between Guam and Leyte, the ship was hit by two Japanese submarines. Out of the six torpedoes fired only, two torpedoes hit her. The first torpedo hit the middle of the ship, and the second hit the bow of the ship where the ammunition, bombs, and gun powder were stored, the fuel tank was right next to that room. At the time the second torpedo hit, there was a huge explosion.
He went to a nearby gas station, filled a plastic container with a dollar’s worth of gasoline, and returned to the club. He threw the gasoline into the only entrance of the club and then lit matches to ignite the fire. Smoke quickly filled the first floor of the club, where 18 people were found dead. Smoke billowed up the narrow staircases to the second floor where there were 69 fatalities. All of the decedents died in the building, and none were resuscitated.
[2] On the morning of December 15, 1917 there was a collision between two ships in the harbour, which led to the devastating explosion. The two ships involved were the Imo and the Mont Blanc. The Imo was a relief ship that had arrived from Rotterdam and the Mont Blanc was a French
The identity of the attackers still had not been determined tonight. Truck Loaded With TNT According to a Pentagon spokesman, a Mercedes truck filled with some 2,500 pounds of TNT broke through a series of steel fences and sandbag barricades and detonated in the heart of the Marines' administrative headquarters building shortly after dawn. The explosion collapsed all four floors of the building, turning it into a burning mound of broken cement pillars and cinder blocks. Although a marine sentry was able to fire about five shots at the suicide driver and another marine threw himself in front of the speeding, explosive- filled truck, neither could block its entry into the headquarters building, where it exploded in a fireball that left a crater 30 feet deep and 40 feet wide. In a haunting scene late tonight, rescue workers using blow torches, pneumatic drills and cranes worked furiously under floodlights to pry out the dead and wounded still crushed beneath the smouldering debris.
This left the remaining buildings gutted to the third and fourth story. Gambling barges became effective torpedoes, destroying buildings as they were washed up to 500feet inland by the waves and storm surges. New Orleans On Monday, 29 August, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans knocked out all power and submerged the low lying city in um to 6 feet (2 meters) of rising water. Katrina tore part of the roof of the roof of a stadium, where many sought refuge. At this point in it's journey Katrina was a category 2 hurricane and brought winds of of 105 miles per hour or 170 kilometres hour.
(Sauberman) Ultimately, due to misjudgments and mistakes the Iroquois Theater burned down, killing a total of 602 people; because of this, stricter theater fire codes were passed. During Christmas vacation a play called Mr. Bluebeard was playing at the Iroquois Theater; and parents took their children to see it. At the beginning of the second act of the play, a spark from an arc light flared up and caught a drop curtain on fire. At first audience members didn’t think much of the flash of light, thinking it was part of the play. (Taylor) The spark then burst into flames, with the fire expanding rapidly behind the stage.
Severe damage to Spanish ships. Bad weather & storms wrecked most of the remaining Spanish ships. Only 1/3 survived. 7th&8th August 1588, English sent fire ships to scatter Spanish. 13th Aug. : the Spanish ships are blown north away.
Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. Eastern Time, and 17 minutes later, Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower. Most people called 911 screaming "Help," but they did not know where they was inside the building. Both towers collapsed creating a massive cloud of smoke that ran through New York. The South Tower collapsed
The buildings went up in flames as people attempted to flee from the ash, steel, glass, and bodies falling from above. Both buildings, which took a total of eight years to construct, collapsed in less than 90 minutes. That same morning, at 9:37, a third plane crashed into the Pentagon, just outside of Washington. Then, at 10:03, the fourth and final plane crashed into a field in southern Pennsylvania. (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States) The hijackers on this plane intended to slam into The White House, but heroic passengers managed