A temporary wooden pier holding up the nearly completed bridge across the Connecticut River had collapsed the previous afternoon.

The pier then collapses onto him.

On 10 October 1323 two piers on the south side of the nave collapsed dragging down much of the roof and wrecking five bays.

In the same year, a pier in Katajanokka collapsed into the sea, and part of the long pier had to be closed.

In 1751 the second most northerly pier collapsed and damaged the adjacent arches.

The pier itself had collapsed.

Ninety minutes later pier two and span two collapsed.

The picture is even bleaker at the port of New London, which has been closed since last year when the state-owned pier collapsed.

Before the pier collapsed in New London in April 1993, the state had spent only $3.2 million for maintenance, design work and emergency repairs in seven years.

First, the temporary pier collapsed, breaking off two courses of iron plates from the caisson and releasing it from its mooring.