Explosives are still on site posing a risk, their removal is planned to begin in 2030 and last 10 years. Mitholz explosion, Switzerland, an underground ammunition depot partially exploded on 19 December 1947, destroying the village and killing 9.150 killed and large part of the city destroyed Cádiz Explosion, 18 August 1947, in mines and torpedoes depot, ca.SS Green Hill Park, 1945 incident in Vancouver similar to El Estero.SS Canada Victory, Logan Victory and Hobbs Victory each with 6,000 pounds of ammunition sank after kamikaze attacks caused an explosion near Okinawa in 1945.SS Charles Henderson, unloading accident in Bari, Italy, 9 April 1945.254 killed (196 USCG, 57 US Army, and 1 US Public Health Service physician) USS Serpens, 29 January 1945 explosion of an ammunition ship off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal.SS John Burke, a Liberty ship carrying ammunition, was hit by a kamikaze pilot and disintegrated in an enormous explosion on December 28, 1944.RAF Fauld explosion, UK underground munitions storage depot in 1944, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history.Tolar, New Mexico, 30 November 1944, munitions carried by train exploded, causing extensive damage to town and killing 1.USS Mount Hood, 10 November 1944 explosion of an ammunition ship at Seeadler Harbor, 432 killed.Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot, Nebraska, 27 September 1944 munitions explosions causing nine deaths and extensive damage.Port Chicago disaster, a deadly munitions explosion that occurred in 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California.West Loch disaster, ammunition explosion in Pearl Harbor, two months before Port Chicago.Soham rail disaster, 2 June 1944, fire and subsequent explosion of a freight wagon carrying high explosives.SS Paul Hamilton, 20 April 1944, a Liberty ship carrying cargo of high explosives and bombs, sunk by Luftwaffe.Bombay Explosion (1944), explosion on a ship in Bombay Harbour.USS Turner, 1943 naval explosion in Lower New York Bay.Naval Weapons Station Yorktown November 1943 explosion – 6 killed.Naval Station Norfolk, Septemaccidental truckload explosion of 24 aerial depth charges, killing 40 and injuring 386.SS El Estero, ammunition ship that caught fire in New York Harbor in 1943.Air raid on Bari, a port disaster in Italy in 1943.Joliet Army Ammunition Plant explosion, a 1942 explosion that was felt 100 miles away.Smederevo Fortress explosion, the Wehrmacht stockpile of captured ammunition and gasoline at Smederevo Fortress exploded due to unknown reasons.Lake Denmark explosion, Jdetonation of millions of pounds of stored explosives at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey.Dublin Four Courts explosion 1922 explosion of munitions stored by the anti-Treaty IRA in the Four Courts building in Dublin, which destroyed much of Ireland's pre-1921 public records.Pollepel Island, August 1920 explosion at Bannerman's Island Arsenal.Morgan Depot Explosion, American munitions factory in 1918.
Halifax Explosion, 1917 ammunition ship explosion that killed over 1,600 people.Kingsland explosion, American munitions factory in 1917.Black Tom explosion, 1916 act of sabotage on American ammunition supplies by German agents during World War I.Kings Mills, Ohio, in 1890, freight cars on the Little Miami Railroad collided with cars containing gunpowder and cartridges from the King Powder Company and the Peters Cartridge Company, killing 11 and wounding about 100.USS Maine, in Havana harbor in 1898 (origin of explosion is disputed).Regent's Park explosion, in 1874 a barge carrying 5 tons of gunpowder blew up on the Regent's Canal in London.Yanwath, 1867 railway explosion when a freight train carrying 3 tons of gunpowder derailed and another freight train hit the wreckage.City Point, Virginia, Union army supply depot sabotaged in 1864 by Confederate Secret Service.Negro Fort, a British-built fort on the Apalachicola River, occupied by fugitive slaves and Choctaws, was destroyed in 1816 when a hot-shot fired by a US gunboat landed in the fort's magazine.Siege of Almeida (1810), a chance shell ignited a line of black powder which set off a chain reaction in the magazine.Leiden gunpowder disaster, in 1807 a ship carrying 17,760 kg of gunpowder blew up in the Dutch town of Leiden.An Ottoman ammunition dump inside the Parthenon was ignited by Venetian bombardment in 1687.Accidents and incidents involving transport or storage of ammunition include:
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