Surprised the US Navy wasn’t involved.
Excellent pictures here:
Still a cap gun compared to what the Norks have detonated.
I first learned about this explosion when I spent some time in Halifax back in the early 1990’s. It’s devastation was hard to believe, even standing on the shore of the bay.
I knew Halifax was a great place when I arrived, they gave me a map for a walking tour of all the bars in Halifax. Their “Busker Days” were fantastic, where the best street performers all do their acts. Friday afternoon was not complete without a visit to the Molsen/Moosehead/Alpine/Labatt’s ... Brewery with open bar all afternoon. I understand Coors now owns the brewery.???
For an ideal vacation, start at the lobster festival in Rockland, Maine, drive up to Bar Harbor and take the ferry to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, drive the Light House route up the Atlantic coast, visiting the Lunenberg Fisheries Museum on the way to Halifax/Dartmouth.
Then drive down the Annapolis basis and see the huge reversing tides and the following weekend was the scallop festival in Digby. From there take the ferry over to St. John and drive back into Maine, stopping in Bangor....
There are lobster’s cooked in wood fired cooker tanks along the ocean in Maine that you can eat at picnic tables.....
So I’m going to guess this isn’t really news or current events......
My grandfather was a six month old infant when the Explosion happened. His mother used to put him in a bassinet on the front porch of their house on the Dartmouth side of the harbour.
On the morning of the Explosion, for some reason, she didn’t.
The front porch was blown to splinters.