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In February 1977, a 25,000-pound sulfur tanker rammed into the Benjamin Harrison Bridge causing one section and multiple vehicles to plunge into the water below.
No one was killed in that bridge collapse, but the bridge was closed 20 months for repairs.
The Port of Virginia posted on X that the Dali called at Virginia International Gateway terminal and departed March 22 for Baltimore as its next port of call.
No one was killed in that bridge collapse, but the bridge was closed 20 months for repairs.
Shortly before 7 a.m. on Feb. 24, 1977, the Marine Floridian, a 612-foot tanker which had just unloaded chemicals at the Allied Chemical plant in Hopewell, slammed into the Benjamin