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בתגובה להודעה מספר 7 שנכתבה על ידי Tal53 שמתחילה ב "לא זוכר את שמו אבל המגדל הזה בהחלט טבע על צוותו"
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Texas Tower No.4 was a triangular shaped Air Force Radar Tower, or D.E.W. (Distant Early Warning Station) built in Portland, Maine, back in 1957. The air force had three such stations -named for their resemblance to oil drilling rigs. Tower #4 was a three deck platform that weighed 500 tons and stood 67 feet above sea level. That is until a severe winter storm toppled the structure taking it and twenty eight men to their watery deaths.
The fate of Tower #4 was actually sealed while still under construction. In June of 1957 while being transported in pieces to be assembled on site. A storm hit the tugs while they were at sea. After the storm, engineers learned that two huge braces had torn off the hugh tripod. The engineers at the scene had a conference and decided rather then tow the tower back to shore for full repair they would erect the tower as is and then have divers repair the damage. Divers were dispatched and did install a collar brace, but Tower #4 right from the start was not nearly as structurally sound as she was designed to be. On August 29, 1958, Daisy, the first of two hurricanes, severely damaged the radar station. Hurricane Donna hit in September of 1960, This powerful storm with 130 mile an hour winds and 50 foot waves, inflicted even more damage to the Towers already weakened underwater legs. By this time, the crew had nicknamed the tower, Old Shaky. The Tower was so unstable that visitors were warned not to shave with a straight razor lest a sudden lurch cause them to cut their throats. In November, 1960, all but 14 crew and 14 repairmen were evacuated for safety reasons. By early January, conditions on board had worsened, but the Air Force would not evacuate for fear that nearby Russian trawlers would capture the abandoned tower and the electronics within her. As Commander Sheppard latter wrote "you don't just walk off and leave millions of dollars of radar equipment lying around untended." By the second week of January with 50 knot winds and 30 foot seas enveloping the tower, the crew on Old Shaky feared for their lives. Even after divers discovered a broken brace on January 7, evacuation orders were still not received. It seems that no one in the Navy's chain of command wanted to take the responsibility for evacuating such an expensive site. On January 14 weather forecasts called for 40 to 60 knot winds. At 10:30 Am personal aboard the Tower reported a very loud noise. The structure then began to move with a new, sickening motion. Obviously another underwater brace had broken away. Not until nearly 4:00 PM was it finally decided to evacuate the remaining men aboard the tower, but by this time the Air Force commanders had waited to long. Air Force and Coast Guard Helicopters were alerted to take off at the first lull in the storm. At 6:45 PM the aircraft carrier, Wasp, reports it's racing towards the tower. The tower radioed "we are breaking up". At 7:20 PM Captain Mangual in a rescue craft, only a few miles from the site, has his eyes fastened on the towers radar image "suddenly the image blurs and is gone" Mangual frantically tried to radio Tower No.4 but There was no reply. It was too late. At 7:33 PM, Sunday, January 15, 1961, Texas Tower #4 slid into the ocean, taking all 28 men to their deaths. |
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