It was caused when the SS Mont-Blanc, a French ship carrying ammunition, and the Imo, a Norwegian steamship carrying Belgian relief supplies, collided in Halifax harbour. The Mont-Blanc was torn ...

The Halifax Explosion of 1917 in Halifax Harbour, killed over 2,000 people. On the bright, freezing morning of Dec. 6, 1917, a French captain steered his ship, the SS Mont Blanc, up the channel ...

The Mont Blanc caught fire and drifted into Pier 6, a space occupied today by the giant Halifax Shipyard building. The St. Bernard, a lumber schooner, was also at the dock.

Ninety-nine years ago, on Dec. 6, 1917, the SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship loaded with wartime explosives, collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the harbour. Nearly 2000 people were ...

The French munitions ship SS Mont Blanc exploded in Halifax Harbour a century ago, raining down shards of white-hot iron, ... At 9:04 a.m., the Mont Blanc blows up with devastating force, ...

There are similarities between the 2020 Beirut port explosion and the 1917 Halifax Harbour Explosion that can make sense of what ... The Mont-Blanc burned for 20 minutes prior to its ...

On the morning of Dec. 6, 1917, an accidental collision of two ships in Halifax Harbour set off an uncontrollable fire. ... the other was the SS Mont-Blanc, ...

The Mont-Blanc tried to steam through a narrow channel into the harbour at the same time that another ship, called the Imo, was coming the other way. BACON: Now, the Imo is dying to get out and ...

At Halifax Harbour’s narrowest stretch, the impatient Imo passed several ships on the left, against nautical convention, which set it on a collision course with Mont Blanc, hugging the shore.

A new ship had entered harbour that morning, the French-flagged Mont Blanc, whose crew had spent a tense night outside on the open sea since it had arrived from New York after Halifax Harbour’s ...

The answer harkens back a century to the world’s biggest manmade explosion to that point in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Americans’ response to it. Before 1917, the two countries could hardly ...

A monument for the 1917 Halifax explosion featuring an anchor blown over three kilometres from the harbour explosion site. (Jack Rozdilsky), Author provided While most of the Mont Blanc was ...