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Undated aerial photo of the shipyard with downtown Long Beach in the background. The Long Beach NSY industrial area encompassed 119 acres (48 ha) of the total 214 acres (87 ha) owned. [1] [2] There were 120 permanent, 39 semi-permanent, and 6 temporary buildings, for a total of 165 buildings. [2]
The initial contamination at the former Long Beach shipyard, where vessels used to dock for repair and maintenance, occurred from the 1940s to the 1960s, when workers were disposing of toxic waste ...
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
Long Beach earthquake: Earthquake Long Beach, California: $50,000,000 (1933) 120 2005 Hurricane Rita: Tropical cyclone Louisiana: $18,500,000,000 (2005) Including 23 deaths from a bus fire during evacuations in Wilmer, Texas [27] 119-120 [28] [29] 1863 New York City draft riots: Riot: New York City, New York: $1–5 million (1863)
New photos show the damage to a US Navy aircraft carrier sustained in a collision with a merchant ship last week.. The warship USS Harry S. Truman docked at a US naval facility in Souda Bay ...
Roosevelt Base Terminal Island shipyard was founded in September 1942 as a ship repair facility. Construction started in 1939. Roosevelt Base also was the administrative and 40 acre recreational center for the Naval facilities on Terminal Island. Roosevelt Base Terminal Island was renamed Naval Station Long Beach on 15 November 1946
Although two crew members were killed, damage control parties saved the ship, and she returned to Long Beach Naval Shipyard for repairs. During 1949 and early 1950, Ozbourn trained midshipmen , underwent overhaul and participated in various exercises, one of which was the first guided missile test at sea conducted with Norton Sound .
But the boy’s death haunts him, mired in the swamp of moral confusion and contradiction so familiar to returning veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is what experts are coming to identify as a moral injury: the pain that results from damage to a person’s moral foundation. In contrast to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which ...