On the morning of 6 December 1917, the French cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Mont-Blanc, laden with high explosives, caught fire and exploded, devastating the Richmond district of Halifax.

2024年12月22日 · Halifax explosion, devastating explosion on December 6, 1917, that occurred when a munitions ship blew up in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Nearly 2,000 people died and some 9,000 were injured in the disaster, which flattened more than 1 square mile (2.5 square km) of the city of Halifax.

2011年1月13日 · Halifax was devastated on 6 December 1917 when two ships collided in the city's harbour, one of them a munitions ship loaded with explosives bound for the battlefields of the First World War. What followed was one of the largest human-made explosions prior to the detonation of the first atomic bombs in 1945.

2010年7月20日 · At 9:05 a.m., in the harbor of Halifax in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, the most devastating manmade explosion in the pre-atomic age occurs when the Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship,...

2017年7月14日 · What Frank Baker heard was the biggest explosion of the pre-atomic age, a catastrophe of almost biblical proportions. The 918 words he wrote for December 6 make up the only eyewitness account...

On the morning of December 6 th, 1917, the steamship Mont-Blanc, inbound from the Atlantic with war material for France, entered the Halifax Harbour Narrows. The Norwegian ship Imo left Bedford Basin, outbound for New York to load supplies for occupied Belgium.

2017年12月8日 · The fire on SS Mont-Blanc ignited the explosive cargo, creating a massive explosion that devastated the people living in Richmond District, Halifax. The fire, blast, debris, or collapsed buildings resulted in more than 2,000 deaths and 9,000 injuries.

2023年11月23日 · On December 6, 1917, the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, witnessed one of history’s most devastating maritime disasters: the Halifax Explosion. This catastrophic event was triggered by a collision in the harbor between the SS Mont-Blanc, carrying a cargo of wartime explosives, and the SS Imo, leading to an explosion of unprecedented scale.

2013年10月18日 · In the pre-dawn darkness of Thursday, December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc lay at anchor near the mouth of Halifax Harbour. It seemed a small, nondescript vessel, but it carried a deadly cargo, a witch's brew of picric acid (used to make artillery shells), TNT, guncotton, benzol (a high octane fuel) and live ammunition.

On the morning of December 6, 1917 in Halifax's harbour, a collision between the Norwegian vessel SS Imo and the French munitions carrier SS Mont Blanc caused the largest man-made explosion prior to the atomic bomb.