Man’s love affair with the sea is legendary. So is the tragedy that follows when man “fools with mother nature.” Here is a truly bizarre tale of man and his fight with the weather.
It is an oxymoron indeed to, “put on your Sunday best, we’re going to see an oil tank burn!” But it happened many times in the first decades of the 20th century. You could even go by train on a Sunday afternoon. The postcards only hint at what a circus it must have been.