Black Tom explosion
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The Black Tom explosion was an act of arson and sabotage by field agents of the Office of Naval Intelligence of the German Empire to destroy U.S.-made munitions awaiting shipment to the Allies during
Black Tom pier shortly after the explosion
Black Tom Island, lying off Jersey City, 1915
View of the Lehigh Valley pier after the explosion
Wrecked warehouses and scattered debris after the explosion
There have been many extremely large explosions, accidental and intentional, caused by modern high explosives, boiling liquid expanding vapour explosions, older explosives such as gunpowder, volatile
Black Tom explosion
…in 2025 dollars). This incident, which happened before the United States entry into World War I, also damaged the Statue of Liberty. It is one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in history. The term "Black Tom" originally referred to an island in New York Harbor next to Liberty Island, named for a "dark-skinned" fisherman who…
Painting of the aftermath of the Delft explosion by Egbert van der Poel
A cropped interior view of Fort Fisher from the northeast angle showing the site of the reserve powder magazine that exploded.
The hole created by the Braamfontein dynamite explosion (looking west) at Maraisburg on 19 February 1896
HMS Queen Mary explodes during the Battle of Jutland