Quayside cranes after the Silvertown Explosion 1917 Christmas Disputes over the development of

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Quayside cranes after the Silvertown Explosion 1917 Christmas Disputes over the development ofQuayside cranes after the Silvertown Explosion. On 19 January 1917, a massive explosion occurred in Silvertown, south of the Royal Victoria Dock. In Messrs Brunner, Mond and Company's munitions works, 50 tons of T. N. T. blew up, killing 73 people and damaging up to 70,000 buildings, including some at the dock. The noise of the blast could be heard as far away as Southampton and Norwich. Fireboats fought to control the flames, which consumed the Royal