Saturday, August 27, 2022

The USS Lafayette (ex SS Normandie) on her side after workers started a blaze on board during refit leading to her capsize. New York, 9th February 1942.

 


7 comments:

  1. always interesting. a video of this fire and sinking exists. thank you for the posts.

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  2. Brings to mind the S.S. Noronic fire in Toronto, seven years later. Worse this time, because it was full of sleeping passengers, berthed at the wharf overnight.

    Same stupid excuses.

    https://worldhistoryproject.org/1949/9/17/ss-noronic-fire

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  3. WOW, workers did dumb stuff back then also?!?!?!?! And this was before unions, right?

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    1. Nope. NYFC: union labor to the core.
      More tonnage sunk that week than Nazi subs.

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