On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:30 AM, <tmr0195@comcast.net> wrote:

IIRC or I was not told a sea story originally there was an ammunition ship that blew up while tied up in Pearl Harbor long after the Dec. 7th attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Loch_disaster (May 44)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster (July 44)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Mount_Hood_(AE-11) (November 44)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Serpens_(AK-97) (January 45)

And the Badger State, which did not go boom, exactly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Starlight_(AP-175)#Post-service_and_loss

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