explosive cargo

Operating by touch in the blackness, he tucked the grenade under one of the ropes, tight against the highly explosive cargo.

Explosive cargo loading supervision.

Like many Naval ships of this category that carried large amounts of explosive cargo, she was named for a volcano (or a volcanic island).

After a collision, Tony is trapped below deck under a girder with time running out; the ship is aflame and carrying a highly explosive cargo.

They found minimal surveillance of the potentially explosive cargo containers transported to and within the U.S. by ship, truck and train.

"Explosive Cargo", Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, October 1977.

All on board shared the certain fear that a torpedo would soon set off her explosive cargo until successful repairs allowed her to resume her harried voyage.

Security experts have long warned that terrorists might try to ram a ship loaded with explosive cargo, perhaps even a weapon of mass destruction, into a major port or terminal.

After reaching Kerama Retto 13 April, she supplied waiting destroyers, LSTs, and smaller landing craft with explosive cargo.

Any other material would have made it too dangerous to handle the explosive cargoes of liquid death that daily moved through the air from the powder mill to the various mixing buildings.

While the passengers all have their own reasons for getting out of Africa, the captain of the ship is also eager to leave, as he is smuggling a dangerous explosive cargo.

A tanker carrying 20,000 tons of liquefied petroleum gas that caught fire on Saturday 24 miles east of Hong Kong remained ablaze, but strong winds prevented the fire from spreading to the potentially explosive cargo.

The Halifax disaster of Dec. 6, 1917, was due to the explosion of picric acid and other explosive cargo when the Norwegian relief ship Imo collided with the French munitions ship Mont Blanc.

The president appeared to be referring to one of the two men aboard a white motorized skiff that American officials say skirted the Cole's port side and detonated an explosive cargo as the destroyer was moored, refueling, at 11:18 a.m. on Oct. 12.

In an investigation to see who would be responsible for the explosion and subsequently the deaths of the two men, it was deemed that the nitro-glycerine was improperly cured, however the railway was held responsible for the improper handling of the explosive cargo.

The Admiralty, as a cover against any leakage of the facts, will put out a press item tomorrow on the supposed discovery of a sunken German World War II warship and the destruction of its huge and dangerously explosive cargo by depth-charge.

Unable to ground his ship for fear of a shock that would set off his explosive cargo, Mackey ordered the Mont-Blanc to steer hard to port (starboard helm) and crossed the Norwegian ship's bows in a last-second bid to avoid a collision.