Bombay Explosion

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No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; [vi], 216 pages + 7 black and white photographic illustrations on 2 plate leaves. Diagrams. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 200 x 131mm. "When the s.s. Fort Stikine blew up in Bombay Docks on April 14th 1944, she created one of the greatest explosions in history. [. . .] The facts are simple, if staggering. The Fort Stikine steamed into Bombay carrying a mixed cargo of 1,395 tons of explosives (including shells, torpedoes, mines and incendiary bombs) and £1,000,000 in gold bars, all taken aboard in Britain, plus 8,700 bales of hessian-wrapped raw cotton, hundreds of drums of lubricating oil (some leaking), scrap iron, sulphur, rice and resin, picked up in Karachi." - from dust-jacket blurb. N° de ref. del artículo 24820

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