While mankind has made remarkable progress in the last century,there have been some instances in the past where innocent human lives were consumeddue to some mishappenings as the unwanted byproduct of the same. Corrosion in itself is not important, but the consequences of corrosion failure may well be. While corosionis almost always unwanted, the consequences of corossion are very costly. Littlesurprise, therefore, that a substantial engineering effort is directed towards itsprevention and control. In this report, those events are disucssed where corossion wasresponsible for taking the lives of hundreds of individuals. What lead to their occurrenceand their causes are discussed aswell