The Narrows
Books
- The Narrows: Halifax, Two Ships and the Morning of 6 December 1917 Halifax, Two Ships and the Morning of 6 December 1917 · Liszt Think
At 9:04:35 a.m. on December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont-Blanc detonated in Halifax Harbour, leveling the Richmond district and killing nearly two thousand people.
- 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…