Talk:1944 Bombay explosion
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[edit]Is the location of the blast known? --KenWalker | Talk 21:52, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Renaming the page as "Bombay Harbour Explosion(1944)"
[edit]The name of the article should be changed as "Bombay Dock Explosion(1944)" to avoid confusion and there were several explosions in Bombay (Mumbai) after 1944,particularly in 1990s onwards. For more clarity, I propose to move the page from Bombay Explosion (1944) to "Bombay Dock Explosion (1944)" as this is worst harbor explosion of India/Asia and the word "dock explosion" is used widely to mention this tragedyRayabhari (talk) 06:49, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
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- Manufacturing details of ship
- The only question is whether there were any other article-notable explosions in Bombay in 1944, or any other article-notable explosions in the Bombay docks. GraemeLeggett (talk) 17:04, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
- Renaming will be useful for clarity, - Because, there occured more number of bomb explosions after 1990s in Bombay; this article deals with a major dock explosion during WWII. -Rayabhari (talk) 06:05, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
- The only question is whether there were any other article-notable explosions in Bombay in 1944, or any other article-notable explosions in the Bombay docks. GraemeLeggett (talk) 17:04, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
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SS Jalapadma
[edit]In a number of sources the name of the ship that was blown out of its dock and landed on top of the harbour wall is given as Japalanda rather than Jalapadma. This probably dates back to a newspaper report at the time which was then used as a source for future material. I first saw this name in a description in "Secrets and Stories of the War", published by Readers Digest in the 1950s/60s. A primary source such as the official report on the disaster would presumably resolve this. Hyperman 42 (talk) 13:46, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
"Around 2 km^2 were set ablaze in an 800 m arc around the ship"
[edit]The article says
- Around 2 km^2 (0.77 sq mi) were set ablaze in an 800 m (870 yd) arc around the ship
What does this mean? My best guess is that "arc" should be radius, but the area of a circle with that radius is 2.01 km^2, but some of that (up to half, depending on the exact position of the explosion) is water. Nø (talk) 17:12, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
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