Port Chicago

Port Chicago can refer to:

  • Port Chicago, California, former town in the United States
  • Port Chicago disaster, deadly explosion that occurred at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California on 17 July 1944, killing 320 people
    • Port Chicago Mutiny, consequence of the Port Chicago disaster, when 258 sailors, a month later, refused to work unless guaranteed safety improvements
    • Port Chicago 50, 50 survivors of the Port Chicago disaster were convicted by the Navy of mutiny
  • Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, at the site of the disaster

Famous quotes containing the words port and/or chicago:

    “It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Must we really see Chicago in order to be educated?”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)