"On the 16th of April, 1947, a small fire started on the cargo ship the SS Grandcamp, while it was docked at the port in Texas City..."

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Background
03:28 - The Texas City Disaster
08:32 - Aftermath

MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
► "Underworld" by Myuu

SOURCES:
► "Explosions of Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer on Board the S. S. Grandcamp and S. S. High Flyer at Texas City, Texas, April 16, 17, 1947" by GM Kintz, GW Jones, and Charles B Carpenter, published by the US Department of the Interior, February 1948. Link: https://digital.library.unt.ed....u/ark:/67531/metadc3
► "Port of Texas City" published by Moore Memorial Public Library, September 2009. Link: https://library.texascitytx.go....v/356/Port-of-Texas-
► "Survivors remember the Texas City port explosion that killed hundreds on April 16, 1947" published by ABC13.com, April 2022. Link: https://abc13.com/texas-city-d....isaster-1947-port-ap
► "75 years ago, Texas City Disaster devastated a community in the deadliest US industrial accident ever" by Susan Carroll, published by the Houston Chronicle, April 2022. Link: https://www.houstonchronicle.c....om/news/houston-texa
► "City on Fire" by Bill Minutaglio, published by University of Texas Press, February 2014. Link: https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/mincip

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