In 1917, the port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was crowded with ships leaving for war-torn Europe. On December 6th, two of them-the Mont Blanc and the Imo-collided
The events of the horrific Halifax explosion are welldocumented: on December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc andthe Belgian relief ship Imo collid
A riveting account of the collision of two ships—and the worst human-caused explosion in history before Hiroshima—with dozens of photos and illustrations. I