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| Halifax: The Mystery Up North. |
"The war was seen as a blessing for the city's economy, but in 1917 a
French munitions ship, the Mont Blanc, collided with a Belgian relief
ship, the Imo. The collision sparked a fire on the munitions ship which
was filled with 2,300 tons of wet and dry picric acid (used for making
lyddite for artillery shells), 200 tons of trinitrotoluene (TNT), 10 tons of
gun cotton, with drums of Benzol (High Octane fuel) stacked on her
deck. On December 6, 1917, at 9:04:35 AM[13] the munitions ship
exploded in what was the largest man-made explosion before the first
testing of an atomic bomb, and is still one of the largest non-nuclear
man-made explosions. Items from the exploding ship landed five
kilometres away. The Halifax Explosion decimated the city's north end,
killing roughly 2,000 inhabitants, injuring 9,000, and leaving tens of
thousands homeless and without shelter.
"The following day a blizzard hit the city, hindering recovery efforts.
Immediate help rushed in from the rest of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland. In the following week more
relief from other parts of North America arrived and donations were
sent from around the world. The most celebrated effort came from the
Boston Red Cross and the Massachusetts Public Safety Committee;
as an enduring thank-you, since 1971 the province of Nova Scotia
has donated the annual Christmas tree lit at the Boston Common in
Boston."
French munitions ship, the Mont Blanc, collided with a Belgian relief
ship, the Imo. The collision sparked a fire on the munitions ship which
was filled with 2,300 tons of wet and dry picric acid (used for making
lyddite for artillery shells), 200 tons of trinitrotoluene (TNT), 10 tons of
gun cotton, with drums of Benzol (High Octane fuel) stacked on her
deck. On December 6, 1917, at 9:04:35 AM[13] the munitions ship
exploded in what was the largest man-made explosion before the first
testing of an atomic bomb, and is still one of the largest non-nuclear
man-made explosions. Items from the exploding ship landed five
kilometres away. The Halifax Explosion decimated the city's north end,
killing roughly 2,000 inhabitants, injuring 9,000, and leaving tens of
thousands homeless and without shelter.
"The following day a blizzard hit the city, hindering recovery efforts.
Immediate help rushed in from the rest of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland. In the following week more
relief from other parts of North America arrived and donations were
sent from around the world. The most celebrated effort came from the
Boston Red Cross and the Massachusetts Public Safety Committee;
as an enduring thank-you, since 1971 the province of Nova Scotia
has donated the annual Christmas tree lit at the Boston Common in
Boston."
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