Cádiz Explosion
1947 MILITARY ACCIDENT IN CADIZ, SPAIN
Cadiz Explosion
The Cádiz Explosion was a military accident which occurred at 9:45 pm, on 18 August 1947 at a storage depot in the Base de Defensas Submarinas (Submarine Defence Base) in Cádiz, Spain, when some 1,737 sea mines, torpedoes and depth charges (of a total of 2,228 distributed in two depots), containing 200 tonnes of TNT and amatol, exploded for unknown reasons.Aparicio Florido, José Antonio (2009) "La catástrofe de Cádiz de 1947 y la explosión de otros polvorines militares" International Association of Emergency Managers.