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The Halifax Explosion: The Shattering Story of the Greatest Man-Made Blast Before the Atomic Age

The Halifax Explosion: The Shattering Story of the Greatest Man-Made Blast Before the Atomic Age

W. Cole, Nathan

Paperback

Series: Forgotten Disasters, Book 3

Canadian HistoryBoatingWorld War I

ISBN13: 9798188290634
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
December 6, 1917. Two ships in a narrow harbor channel. One of them is a floating bomb.

On a clear wartime morning, the French freighter Mont-Blanc - loaded with over 2,500 tons of high explosives - collided with the Norwegian steamer Imo in the Narrows of Halifax Harbour. Twenty minutes later came the largest man-made explosion before the atomic age. Inside you'll find:

  • The wartime port at full strain, and the chain of small decisions that put a bomb in its busiest channel
  • The twenty minutes of fire - the crowds at their windows, and the telegraph operator who stayed at his key
  • The blast, the tsunami, and the square mile of the city that vanished in a single second
  • The blizzard that buried the ruins the next morning, and the Boston relief train that fought through it
  • The inquiries and trials that ended with both ships at fault and no one punished - and the Christmas tree Nova Scotia still sends Boston every December
Drawn from archives, the Remembrance Book, and a century of scholarship, The Halifax Explosion tells Canada's forgotten catastrophe hour by documented hour.

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