Don’t forget the grounding of the Enterprise in San Francisco Bay in the 1980s.
Missouri’s Thimball Shoals grounding was, at least, spectacular. 58,000 ton battleship hits a sandbar at around 30 knots. With predictable results.
Apparantly the big difficulty in pulling Mo off (took most of the East Coast’s salvage assets) was that the force of the impact compacted the sand the ship plowed into into ... concrete.
“Don’t forget the grounding of the Enterprise in San Francisco Bay in the 1980s.”
I remember that. I was fresh out of boot camp/A school, standing on the pier waiting for the Enterprise (my first ship) when she got stuck in plain sight of the pier. I spent 3.5 years on her and learned everything I needed to know about painting and floor care.