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:

    “The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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