(erielack) Earle Trip

[Michael Allen <"ptrmgtsvc_@_juno.com">]

In answer to 
 Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:44:48 EDT "Dlw1el2_@_aol.com" writes:
> There are only two locations on the East coast for loading ammo on to
ships, with the other being Yorktown Va.  Both seem to languish out of
the spotlight.
> 
> Bob 

What you mean is the Navy only has two locations. There is a third, Army
operated, ammunition port at Sunny Point, North Carolina. We never tried
to attract attention when I was at Sunny Point, but with a twenty mile
railroad and a roster that included FMs and both Alco and EMD MRS-1s it
was hard not to.


The Jordans <"pamela_@_blast.net"> wrote:
> As I remember that base is very large but that was years ago and I
thought I heard some of the base land has been turned over to the
county/state for park/wetlands conservation use.

Ammunition Depots handle a cargo which has usually been designed to do
the most damage possible per pound of tare. The storage areas are spread
over vast amounts of otherwise unused land so that an accident in one
part of the facility area will not result in sympathetic detonations in
other parts of the facility or damage to anything else. This makes them
excellent sites for conservation.

Remember that both Earle and Sunny Point were built as the result of
several loading accidents which occured during World War Two and were
placed so that they were:
 1. Far enough inland to be out of range of naval gunfire; 
 2. Fairly desolate areas for both security and safety; and,
 3. had access to well defended piers - at Earle an assault would have
had to pass the   coast artillery at Sandy Hook 
    
MEA


         
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