Thousands of tonnes of explosives of went up creating the largest man made explosion before the advent of the nuclear bomb.
The Halifax Explosion started when two ships collided in the harbor of the Nova Scotian capital of Halifax.
Our first impression was that we were being attacked by submarines, and we all rushed for the upper deck, where we saw a veritable mountain of smoke of a yellowish hue and huge pieces of iron were flying all around us.
Halifax explosion, also called Halifax explosion of 1917 or the Great Halifax Explosion, devastating explosion on December 6, 1917, that occurred when a munitions ship blew up in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. La città è stata in seguito ricostruita e il porto è il più grande porto canadese sull'Ogni anno, dal giorno del disastro, a Natale, la città di Halifax dona a quella di Per commemorare le vittime dell'esplosione, la municipalità di Halifax ha eretto un piccolo Distanza massima a cui si è udita l'esplosione: 360 km Distanza di ritrovamento dell'ancora della Mont Blanc: 3,78 km Distanza di ritrovamento di un cannone della Mont Blanc: 5,5 km
Ships of every size came and went, thousands of soliders, sailors, workers and their families crammed homes filling the hillside above the warves, warehouses and factories at water's edge. Two thousand dead. Our doctor attended to the wounded men on the tug as quickly as possible and we laid them on stretches in a motor board and took them to hospital.
We turn out of our hammocks at 6.30am and lash up and stow in the usual way, we fall in on the upper deck at 7am and disperse to cleaning stations, busying ourselves scrubbing decks etc until 8am when we “cease fire” for breakfast. (Dartmouth Heritage Museum)
People immediately suspected the Germans had invaded. Nine thousand injured. Two ships were in collision, one a merchant vessel and the other an ammunition transport loaded with high explosive. We were fully impressed by the time that we were being attacked by submarines and we were expecting our turn to come at any moment.
Nonostante questo, in pochi giorni i sopravvissuti poterono trovare alloggi sicuri, pasti caldi e poterono ricominciare la loro vita di sempre. W5 commemorates 100 years since the Halifax Explosion.
The N.W. During the afternoon we received a call for help from the “Eole” the crew having mutinied, we went aboard and after considerable difficulty succeeded in restoring order.
They went outside or to windows to watch blaze, unaware that in an instant it would unleash a blast unlike the world had ever seen.
The Halifax Explosion was a disaster that occurred in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the morning of 6 December 1917.
Nearly 2,000 people were killed, fires burned, houses collapsed. Just before 9 a.m., two ships -– the Mont Blanc, filled with explosives and headed up the harbour, and the Imo, a Norwegian ship moving in the other direction –- collided in the Narrows. Fires broke out on ships all around and hundreds of small crafts had been blown to hell and the sea presented an awful scene of debris and wreckage.
A clock atop city hall suddenly froze at 9:04:35. (Dartmouth Heritage Museum)
Published Thursday, November 30, 2017 3:20PM EST SHOWS The “Acadia” being run on strictly naval lines, we clean ourselves and fall in again at 9am.
THE GREAT WAR - Week by Week 100 Years Later S4 • E49 Halifax Explosion - Peace in the East? From the ship the scene was one of utter desolation, what a few hours before had been beautiful vessels, were now terrible wrecks, their crews all dead and bodies, arms, etc were floating around in the water.
The first thud shook the ship from stern to stern and the second one seemed to spin us all around, landing some under the gun carriage and others flying in all directions all over the deck. Halifax, being on the east coast, was the point where troops and goods left for the front, making the city a bustling centre.
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