PortandTerminal.com, October 15, 2020 WARSAW, POLAND – Earlier this week we reported that the Polish Navy had accidentally set off a massive World War 2 bomb that had been discovered in a canal near the Baltic Coast. The British bomb had been resting near the Baltic Sea, 40 feet beneath the surface, for 75 years. The 19 foot bomb held …
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VIDEO: Navy explodes largest WWII bomb ever found in Poland
PortandTerminal.com, October 13, 2020 The bomb was found in northwest Poland near where a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal was opened in 2016 | It was discovered last year during dredging in the northwest of Poland WARSAW, POLAND – A British World War II giant Tallboy bomb exploded while being made safe underwater by Navy sappers in northwestern Poland on …
Read More »Polish divers hope Nazi shipwreck holds key to Amber Room treasure
REUTERS, OCTOBER 2, 2020 Up until its loss during the Second World War, the Amber Room was considered an “Eighth Wonder of the World. Has it just been found? WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish divers say they have found the wreck of a German World War Two ship which may help solve a decades-old mystery – the whereabouts of the Amber …
Read More »Port crane from 14th century still survives in Gdansk, Poland
PortandTerminal.com, August 29, 2019 GDANSK, POLAND – The earliest mentions of the Port of Gdansk date to over to the 10th century, over 1,500 years ago. The first mention of its iconic Zuraw Crane dates to 1367 as we’ll come to later in this article. Chronicles of the early 13th century give more details about Gdansk’s overseas trade at that time. …
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