The 11,509grt Leopoldville was built in 1929 by Societe Cockerill at Hoboken for CMB. On 24th December 1944 she was torpedoed and sunk by U-486 while on a voyage with 2,235 American troops onboard from Southampton to Cherbourg. 808 people lost their lives. (John B. Hill collection) An...
The enormous offshore oil rig was located in the Gulf of Mexico when a catastrophic failure caused a massive explosion and a raging, inextinguishable fire that eventually sunk the rig. The result was the largest oil spill in U.S. history and, as reported by the Press-Register of Southern...