THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION 
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Date. 
a.d. I 
1800 |28 May 
1801 20 Mar. 
1801 25 Apr. 
1802 8 Sept. 
1805 !15 June 
1805 ! 1 Oct. 
1807 j Jan. 
1807 ;26 June 
1807 18 Sept. 
1808 9 i, 
1810 16 Jan. 
1810 2 Sept. 
1810 j24 Sept. 
1811 127 Nov. 
1812 i 4 July 
1812 14 „ 
1813 21 Aug. 
1814 Sept. 
1816 16 Apr. 
1817 3 Oct. 
1818 19 Mar. 
1829 28 Nov. 
1840 6 June 
About same 
time. 
1843 |13 Apr. 
1843 22 „ 
1843 23 „ 
1850 11 Mar. 
1853 — 
1855 7 Oct. 
1856 6 Nov. 
1857 ,10 Aug. 
1859 30 Mar. 
1859 | 6 Aug. 
1860 10 Sept. 
1860 | 1 Dec. 
1861 1 21 Jan. 
1861 [ 27 May 
1862 j 9 Sept. 
1864 9 Jan. 
( Continued .) 
Place. 
Number of persons 
Nature and extent of 
damage to property. 
Cause of 
explosion. 
killed. 
injured. 
Nantes. 
Many. 
- 
Magazine blew up; 
many houses de¬ 
stroyed. 
? 
Battle . 
1 
— 
— 
p 
Waltham Mills . 
9 
— 
Mill exploded. 
P 
Faversham . 
6 
— 
3 horses killed. 
? 
Dartford . 
2 
— 
— 
? 
Edinburgh, Roslin . 
2 
— 
Mill exploded. 
? 
Leyden . 
200 
The most magnifi¬ 
cent part of Leyden 
(about 300 houses) 
blown up, by the 
accidental explo¬ 
sion of a vessel 
lying in the Rapen- 
burg canal, laden 
with gunpowder. 
? 
Luxembourg . 
? 
— 
— 
Lightning, 
Faversham. 
6 
— 
3 horses killed. 
? 
Venice. 
— 
— 
— 
Lightning. 
Faversham. 
Eisenach. 
6 
54 citizens, 
escort. 
besides 
2 horses killed. 
Three French pow¬ 
der wagons blown 
up ; 28 houses de¬ 
stroyed, and large 
portion of town 
set on fire. 
? 
Spark from 
horse’s 
hoof set 
fire to spilt 
powder. 
Dartford. 
2 
.— 
_ 
P 
Waltham Mills . 
1 
— 
_ 
? 
Hounslow . 
— 
2 
_ 
? 
Roslin . 
2 
1 
Mills blown up. 
? 
Hounslow . 
3 
— 
Two explosions. 
? 
Battle . 
3 
— 
— 
? 
Toulouse. 
16 
(about.) 
several. 
Mills exploded. 
? 
Faversham. 
United States, Brandy 
3 
— 
— 
? 
Wine. 
30 
10 
Powder mills blew 
up. 
? 
Navarino... 
? 
— 
Lightning. 
Bombay (magazine). 
? 
. — 
— 
" 
Dum Dum . 
P 
_' 
_ 
n 
Waltham. 
’-7 
— 
Four buildings over¬ 
thrown. 
P 
Sicily, Puzzaloni . 
? 
— 
• — 
Lightning. 
Spain, Gaucin . 
? 
— 
— 
„ 
Hounslow . 
8 
— 
Three explosions. 
? 
Hounslow . 
Liverpool, firework fac¬ 
? 
— 
— 
Lightning. 
tory, Green Street ... 
5 
— 
— 
„ 
Rhodes.... 
p 
— 
_ 
Bombay, Joudpore . 
1000 
(about.) 
— 
— 
n 
Hounslow . 
7 
— 
Mills again blown up. 
? 
Ballineollig (near Cork). 
Argyleshire, Melford 
5 
— 
— 
? 
Powder Mills. 
6 
— 
— 
? 
Norwich . 
Chatham, Government 
manufactory for hand 
2 
Explosion in a shop; 
destroyed much pro¬ 
perty. 
? 
grenades . 
1 
several. 
— 
P 
Waltham Mills . 
Cornwall, Nance Kuke 
1 
others. 
Mills blew up. 
? 
Powder Mills. 
Liverpool, “Lottie 
Sleigh” . 
6 
— 
— 
? 
Nil. 
Vessel with 11^ tons 
of gunpowder on 
board. 
By ship 
catching 
fire 
through 
unexplain¬ 
ed ignition 
of a quan¬ 
tity of 
“ Parafin 
oil.” 
Remarks. 
The steward was in the 
act of filling from a can 
into a lamp; can was 
dropped by steward, and 
flaming contents flowed 
along cabin floor and 
ignited curtains andbed 
clothes,and then flowed 
through grating oflaza- 
rette and ignited cargo 
in after-hold. 
