[CPEO-MEF] Ordnance in New York harbor

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Sailor Remembers the Rockets and Bombs that Sunk in Gravesend Bay
City-Planned Dredging Could Disturb Explosive Graveyard


By Ryan Thompson
Brooklyn Daily Eagle (NY)
January 22, 2008

GRAVESEND BAY - After spending several days carefully loading over 200 
tons of ammunition and explosives onto a barge, a U.S. Navy crew just 
had to watch it all sink away.

In actuality, most didn't watch at all on that day in March 1954. With 
obvious exception to the eight sailors who fell overboard with the 
rockets and bombs, most of the aircraft carrier's crew were not even 
aware that the explosive cargo had sunk.

"I didn't know it capsized until I read about it in the local newspaper 
a week ago," said Petty Officer Louis Hodgson, who was in charge of 
unloading all of the munitions off the USS Bennington onto that barge 
that day. "They don't tell us anything."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=17987

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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