What the records say
- When
- 18 Aug 1947
- Kind
- Explosion
- Coordinates
- 36.52° N, 6.28° W
- Description
- 1947 military accident in Cadiz, Spain
- Deaths
- 150
- Injured
- 2000
1947 Cádiz explosion
1947 explosion in Cádiz, Spain
The Cádiz explosion was a military accident which occurred at 9:45 pm, on 18 August 1947 at a storage depot in the Base de Defensas Submarinas in Cádiz, Spain, when some 1,737 sea mines, torpedoes and depth charges, containing 200 tonnes of TNT and amatol, exploded for unknown reasons.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en los astilleros de Cádiz (España): estalla un depósito de explosivos de la Marina de Guerra; mueren más de 155 personas y el número de heridos supera los 5000”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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