Halifax
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- 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…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…