To: Bon mots
The Halifax disaster of 1917 was worse than Texas City. A munitions ship exploded in Halifax harbor - over 2000 dead and wiped out half a squre mile of the city.
6 posted on
10/20/2003 9:54:05 AM PDT by
mrjeff
To: mrjeff
Wow!
9 posted on
10/20/2003 9:56:10 AM PDT by
OXENinFLA
To: mrjeff
The Halifax Disaster
On December 6, 1917, two war ships, a Belgian relief ship, Imo, and a French ship carrying munitions, the Mont Blanc, fatally collided in Halifax Harbor. Incorrect signaling and misunderstanding between the two ships led the Imo to strike the side of the Mont Blanc. The Mont Blanc, which was carrying 400,000 pounds of TNT, 300 rounds of ammunitions, along with other explosive ingredients, caught fire and drifted closer into the city of Halifax. Before the fire could be put out, the Mont Blanc exploded creating the "biggest man-made explosion before the nuclear age". The explosion killed over 2,000 people and injured 9,000. The explosion caused $28 million in damage - 326 acres of the north-end of Halifax's waterfront had been destroyed.
To: mrjeff
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