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His decision (27 April 1918) found Mont-Blanc entirely at fault. [130] Subsequent appeals to the Supreme Court of Canada (19 May 1919), and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London (22 March 1920), determined Mont-Blanc and Imo were equally to blame for navigational errors that led to the collision.
Mont-Blanc was built to the same set of plans used to build the New Zealand steamship SS Whangape, a sister ship launched a few months after Mont-Blanc. [2] The SGTM registered Mont-Blanc at Marseille. [3] Her code letters were KHTN. [4] She was launched on 25 March 1899 and completed that June. Mont-Blanc was a tramp steamer.
Stella Maris played a major role in the events of the Halifax Explosion in 1917. Stella Maris was built in Poplar, England in 1882 by Samuda Bios as a Banterer-class gunboat , HMS Starling . The vessel was 124.5 feet (37.9 m) long, 23.6 feet (7.2 m) wide, and 12.2 feet (3.7 m) deep, and had a tonnage of 229.
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 ...
Imo Norway: 6 December 1917 Halifax Explosion: The cargo ship collided with Mont-Blanc ( France) at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mont-Blanc caught fire and was obliterated in a massive explosion that killed approximately 2,000 people and drove Imo ashore. Imo subsequently was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. USS Ingraham United States Navy
He was two years old when he was blinded by the Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917. [1] At the time of his death in 2009, Davidson was the penultimate living survivor with permanent injuries from the Halifax Explosion, [2] which killed more than 1,600 people. [1] Davidson was born to parents Georgina (née Williams) and John William Davidson.
A plumber’s truck exploded on a quiet residential street in Queens Friday morning – damaging several homes and nearby cars, according to fire officials and sources.
A number of French ships have borne the name Mont-Blanc, in honour of the Mont-Blanc mountain. Among them, The ship of the line Mont Blanc (1793); The civilian cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc (1899) of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, which when carrying ammunition during World War I blew up in the Halifax Explosion of 1917.