Magazines 1970-1979

Oil Tanker Fire

The ship was longer than three football stadiums lined end to end. She was valued at $45 million and carried 270,000 tons of hazardous crude oil. Her name was the Atlantic Empress and when she collided with the Aegean Captain, another fully laden supertanker, on July 19, the result was catastrophe: the worst oil tanker spill in history and a blaze that took firefighters over two weeks to extinguish.

Bowery Church Fire

On July 27, 1978, Manhattan Borough Commander John J. Fogarty faced a difficult fire at the 179-year old Episcopal Church, St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery, a New York City landmark that is the oldest site of continuous worship in the city.

Bowery Church Fire

Jan 7, 2020 | Articles, Magazines 1970-1979

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