and the strategic value of the ship or ships destroyed. Some naval disasters happened during large sea battles. The huge Japanese battleship Yamato was sunk on April 7, 1945. Almost 2,500 Japanese ...

If a large ship loses power or steering and hits one ... “If a ship loses power, taking out a bridge isn’t the only disaster that can happen. It can run aground. It can leak oil.

A Mexican navy training ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City Saturday, killing two people and injuring 19.

That disaster also led to changes in bridge standards ... “definitely inadequate” to protect against a strike by a large ship. “Timber is not going to work,” he said.

A cruise ship that lost power during a storm off the coast of Norway and nearly ran aground in 2019 avoided becoming "one of the worst disasters ... safe operation" of large vessels, and that ...

Federal transportation safety officials named six major Bay Area bridges that could be vulnerable to collapse if hit by a large container ... collapse from a ship strike. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy ...

Recent inspections show local bridges, including the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, have ‘adequate’ protections against ship strikes. But, Baltimore’s bridge disaster ...

but that they would not protect the bridge from a strike from a ship that large. Lessons from the Skyway bridge disaster were highlighted in guidelines published by the American Association of ...