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On the morning of 6 December 1917, the French cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Mont-Blanc, laden with high explosives, caught fire and exploded, devastating the Richmond district of Halifax.
December 6, 1917 (Thursday) A view of devastated Halifax, Nova Scotia following the explosion after explosives on a crippled ship ignited in the harbour.
SS Mont-Blanc was a cargo steamship that was built in Middlesbrough, England, in 1899 for a French shipping company. [1] On Thursday morning, December 6, 1917, she entered Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada, laden with a full cargo of highly volatile explosives.
The Halifax Explosion was a maritime disaster in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the morning of 6 December 1917. SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship laden with high explosives bound for Bordeaux, France, collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the Narrows, at the north-west tip of Halifax Harbour. When a fire on board the French ship ...
On December 6, 1917, almost 2000 people were killed by the accidental explosion of the French ammunition ship Mont-Blanc in Halifax Harbour.The Halifax Relief Commission was created to take over relief and rehabilitation work, as well as the reconstruction of the city.
List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1917 Ship State Description Berwick Law United Kingdom World War I: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Ténès, Algeria by SM U-34 ( Imperial German Navy) with the loss of a crew member.
December 6 is the 340th day of the year (341st in leap years) ... 1917 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (d. 2008)
Vince Coleman. Patrick Vincent Coleman (13 March 1872 – 6 December 1917) [1] was a train dispatcher for the Canadian Government Railways (formerly the ICR, Intercolonial Railway of Canada) who was killed in the Halifax Explosion, but not before he sent a message to an incoming passenger train to stop outside the range of the explosion.