The mudwagon had caught fire also.

Then he caught fire.

The " Golden Age " of the airships ended on May 6, 1937 when the Hindenburg caught fire, killing 36 people.

In 2000, the Indians had a 44 – 42 start, but caught fire after the All Star break and went 46 – 30 the rest of the way to finish 90 – 72.

After a brief July slump, the Indians caught fire in August, and cut a 15. 5 game deficit in the Central Division down to 1. 5 games.

Sosa caught fire in June, hitting a major league record 20 home runs in the month, and his home run race with Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire transformed the pair into international superstars in a matter of weeks.

Kaye was flying home from an appearance in London in 1949 when one of the plane's four engines lost its propeller and caught fire.

The race saw Achille Varzi and Tazio Nuvolari exchange the lead many times before being settled in Varzi's favour on the final lap when Nuvolari's car caught fire.

They failed to find a route through and in the process were caught by heavy fire and lost 13 tanks.

During their attack, the Avengers encountered intense anti-aircraft fire ; Bush's aircraft was hit by flak and his engine caught on fire.

However, on February 22, 2003, one of the production facilities caught fire and was badly damaged.

While Baum was touring with The Maid of Arran, the theatre in Richburg caught fire during a production of Baum's ironically-titled parlor drama, Matches, destroying not only the theatre, but the only known copies of many of Baum's scripts, including Matches, as well as costumes.

After an incident where her dress caught fire on an iron grate when she was about three, her mother began dressing her in boys ' pants, and she was given the nickname " Jimmy " from the comic strip, Little Jimmy.

There was not a house that was not consumed, and it was impossible to extinguish the flames, because all the houses caught on fire at once.

* Queen ( East Indiaman ship ), an East Indiaman ship that caught fire and exploded in 1800

In 2003, a nightclub fire in West Warwick claimed one hundred lives and resulted in nearly twice as many injured, and caught national attention.

In 1920 the Norwegian ship Spangereid caught fire and sank at her mooring at James Bay, depositing quantities of coal on the beach below the wharf.

Around the middle of his career, Edison attributed the hearing impairment to being struck on the ears by a train conductor when his chemical laboratory in a boxcar caught fire and he was thrown off the train in Smiths Creek, Michigan, along with his apparatus and chemicals.

On 26 November 2011, former Togo goalkeeper Charles Balogou was among six people killed when a bus, carrying players and officials from the Etoile Filante delegation, plunged into a ravine 130 kilometers north of Lomé and caught fire.

* August 22 – British Airtours Flight 28M The 737's left engine caught fire while on its take off roll, 55 people are killed while trying to evacuate the aircraft.

Before its planned February 21, 1967 launch, the Command Module interior caught fire and burned on January 27, 1967 during a pre-launch test on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, killing all three men.

* On 7 January 2012, a hot air balloon collided with a power line, caught fire and crashed at Carterton, North Island New Zealand, killing all eleven people on board.

In December that year the oldest child, then four years old, died after her clothes caught fire, possibly whilst adding wood shavings to the fire.

A major naval accident occurred on 24 November 1999 at Yantai, Shandong, China when the 9, 000-ton Chinese ferry Dashun caught fire and capsized in rough seas.

*, an ocean liner launched in 1916, which caught fire and capsized in 1939 and was scrapped in the late 1940s.

In 1942, the USS Lafayette ( formerly SS Normandie ) caught fire at Pier 88, remaining capsized there for a year.

On 25 January 1953, the liner RMS Empress of Canada caught fire and capsized in Gladstone Number One Branch Dock.

* 1953: One of the Harwich based ferries, the " Duke of York " had her bows completely cut off in a collision with an American cargo ship, and the Danish passenger liner Kronprins Frederik caught fire while docked and capsized alongside the quay.

On 9 January 1972, the ship caught on fire during refurbishing and sank into Hong Kong's harbour.

When he let out a surprised cry, Melusina caught sight of him, and her bath immediately sank into the solid rock, carrying her with it.

While the tanks of the regiment were being loaded onto Italian cargo ships in the port of Naples, the cargo ship Leverkusen caught fire and sank, resulting in the loss of the 10 Panzer IIIs and three Panzer IVs on board.

Many of these ships sank or were caught, such as the Patria ( Patra ), Struma and SS Bulgaria.

And just at dawn a line of Japanese dive bombers, heading in from the Pacific, caught two of the Navy's PBYs sitting on the water of Davao Gulf and sank them out of hand.

The British Admiral Sir Edward Hawke with 24 ships of the line caught up with a French fleet with 21 ships of the line under Marshal de Conflans and, after hard fighting, sank, captured, or forced aground 6 of them and dispersed the rest, giving the Royal Navy one of its greatest victories, as part of the Annus Mirabilis of 1759.

* Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets, a nuclear submarine which caught fire and sank off Norway

As the troops landed many leapt into deep water and sank under the weight of their equipment ; others got caught on the barbed wire.

She caught fire and sank off Lagos Harbor in 1942.

The St. Andrew's Society, one such organization, buried 15 Scottish casualties who were aboard the steamboat " Montreal " when she caught fire and sank near Quebec City in 1857.

The two ships were caught by Japanese dive bombers at 1pm on Easter Sunday, 5 April 1942 and the Dorsetshire sank eight minutes after the first bomb hit.

The steamboat he supposedly missed was the steamship Lexington, which caught fire and sank with the loss of 139 out of 143 passengers and crew on that voyage.

The next night aircraft from the task group caught U-68 on the surface, in broad moonlight, and sank her with one survivor, a lookout caught on-deck when the U-boat crash dived.

Rocked by explosions the ship burned, and when its gunpowder stores caught fire, it exploded and sank in front of the port.

They caught TF 62. 2 by surprise, and sank four Allied cruisers, including HMAS Canberra.

In 1994, the Achille Lauro caught fire and sank.

She caught fire and sank on 17 March 1800.

On 9 January 1972, the ship caught fire during refurbishing and sank into Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour and the wreckage had to be scrapped three years later.

Two other major shipwrecks can be found in the area: the MV Tung Hwuang, a freighter that sank in the 1980s while transporting cement to Brunei for the Sultan's new palace, and the MV Mabini Padre, a trawler from the Philippines which caught fire and sank in 1981.