TEXAS CITY, Texas — April 16 is a day still remembered in Texas City – the day of an unimaginable disaster. It happened during prosperous times for the growing oil, shipping and chemical ...

Part of the anchor from the SS Grandcamp, which was blown 1.62 miles from the ship when it exploded in the 1947 Texas City Disaster, at Memorial Park in Texas City. Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle ...

Texas City honors disaster victims, survivors nearly 80 years later. Posted: April 12, 2025 ... The 1947 Texas City explosions killed at least 576 people and destroyed at least 1,000 buildings.

On Wednesday, April 16, 1947, one of the deadliest disasters in United States history ripped through a Texas City waterfront near Galveston, and two heroes of this disaster were a man and a woman ...