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On 21 May 1943 the keel was laid, she was launched on 20 July 1943 and commissioned on 27 March 1944. The original cost for the hull and machinery was $876,403. Blackthorn was one of 39 original 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tenders built between 1942 and 1944. All but one of the original tenders, USCGC Ironwood, were built in Duluth.
The city, and the fire department's responsibilities, have changed much since then. Port Tampa Bay ships 52 million tons of cargo per year and handles more hazardous materials than anywhere else in Florida. Tampa International Airport serves over 10 million travelers each year, while the 75,000 seat Raymond James Stadium sees many travelers as ...
Fatalities aboard A9-268 were Flt. Lt. David George Dey (280627), 27, pilot; F/O Rex Lindsay Solomon (408149), 21; F/O Jack Norman (407561); and Sgt. Hugh Sydney George Richardson (410093), 23. The accident was filmed by Fox Movietone News cameraman Eric Bieve, and footage is available on the web.
A construction worker at Port Tampa Bay died Wednesday after he was crushed by a 3,000-pound bundle of lumber, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies said around 11 a.m ...
NBC South Florida. Updated August 21, 2024 at 8:12 AM. via Monroe County Sheriff. The 911 calls of a watercraft crash that killed a 9-year-old boy and his father in the Florida Keys reveal moments ...
0. On January 5, 2002, Charles J. Bishop, a high-school student of East Lake High School in Tarpon Springs, Florida, United States, stole a Cessna 172 light aircraft and crashed it into the side of the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida. The impact killed the teenager and damaged an office room, but there were no other injuries.