The Harbour Master's Logbook…or that the collier’s cargo of Welsh coal was needed in Bedford Basin by nightfall to fuel a troopship sailing for Liverpool. This was how the Narrows worked in wartime: through accumulated notation, through the translation of physical crisis into administrative record. The harbour master’…
Mont-Blanc Carries a Cargo of Explosives…rd. She must anchor no closer than two hundred yards to any other vessel. She must wait for the convoy commodore’s signal before attempting the Narrows, the five-mile channel that connected Bedford Basin to the outer harbour and the sea. Mackey guided her to her assigned berth in the dark.…
The Norwegian Ship Imo and Belgian Relief…ont-Blanc crept forward with its own pilot and its own instructions, and the two schedules began their final approach toward one another in the Narrows. Back in the Netherlands, three days before, the Imo had completed her most recent round of Belgian relief. She had sailed as a charter for…
The Harbour Master's Logbook…ed enough to escape the smell of the fish sheds. By 1917, the harbour had fallen under the control of the Royal Canadian Navy; its fleet in Halifax was growing, including patrol ships, tugboats, and minesweepers. The population of Halifax and Dartmouth had increased to between 60, 000 a…
Mont-Blanc Carries a Cargo of Explosives…ystem before. The charter party specified that she would sail under the protection of the Allied navies, joining a slow convoy gathering at Halifax where ice-free waters offered the only winter passage to Europe. The checker continued down the manifest. Trinitrotoluene: two hundred tons…
The Norwegian Ship Imo and Belgian Relief…ts. What mattered was her tonnage, her speed, her neutral registry, and the date by which she had to reach her loading port. She arrived in Halifax on 3 December for neutral inspection, the routine examination that belligerent ports imposed on ships flying the flags of non-combatant nat…