Part of:
Center for Adventist Research Photograph Collection
Date issued:
12/01/1917
Source:
Center for Adventist Research
Descrição:
The Halifax Explosion occurred on the morning of Thursday, December 6, 1917. The SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship fully laden with wartime explosives, collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the Narrows, a strait connecting the upper Halifax Harbour to Bedford Basin. Approximately twenty minutes later, a fire ...