The 6th of December, 1917, the world is embroiled in one of the worst conflicts in human history. Back on the homefront, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a sleepy town goes about it’s day. But during this globe spanning conflict, no one is safe. Loaded onto a tramp steamer, the SS Mont Blanc, is a massive amount of explosives, in it’s path is a steamer on a time crunch. What ensues would go down in history as one of the worst explosions of all time.
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Works Cited:
The Halifax Explosion: Canada’s Worst Disaster by Ken Cuthbertson
The Great Halifax Explosion by John U. Bacon
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Halifax, a "rustic town." Really dude? A major int'l seaport, naval port, industry & manufacturing, and the eastern terminus of Canadian rail travel. Hardly a rustic town.
It's always been called the Halifax Explosion I'm not complaining I'm just saying I wasn't sure what I was going to watch lol 😂🤣 little confusing.
Wrong place, wrong time and more importantly wrong temperaments.
As a local it's always nice to see something about your city
Nice. Thought you were dead. Least you're not oversimplified lmfao. Great work friend! Can't wait to see the next one
This is the most detailed account of that disaster I have ever seen. Thanks
Today they're would be filming with the phone's, and then killed or injured.
Thanks for sharing. The chain of events is amazing. How many things had to go wrong in an exacting manner for this to happen.
That was exceptionally well done 😃👍🍻
I'm a lifelong student of history and have lived in Halifax. The memory of that disaster is vividly remembered to this day.
Incidentally, the Manhattan Project used data and visits to Halifax to establish the best way to deploy the atomic bombs because of the sheer power of the detonation. 💥
"Pardon my pronounciation" for the French but not for calling Middleborough "Middle-burrur" (it's pronounced Middlebruh) or Yorkshire "Yerk-shire"! 😛
From a brit who grew up just a few miles from the original Dartmouth, well done mate! A moving, fascinating, horrific, brilliantly told history of the Halifax disaster.
My heart rate has only just settled…
I sure would like to finish this story but I can’t make it past the half way mark without falling asleep
Great video sir. New sub here. 🙂
Well done, mate! This is hands down the most informative and vividly descriptive video on this tragedy that I have seen. I really appreciate your research into this event and your articulate delivery of the story. Truly, it is one of the saddest events in human history, wrecking havoc and horror upon thousands of innocent, unsuspecting lives.
uwu imo trash
Meanwhile in the UK the Richard S Montgomery still sits just off the coast of Sheerness… fully loaded.
I’d have abandoned ship ASAP.
Seen and read a lot about this desaster already,but it gives me chills every time. Just an incomprehensible amount of devastation and despair…
Halifax explosion is in this point just milking a dead cow.
Finally, a Maritime Horrors upload! These are always such a treat to watch…
pressure wave generated was 14.7 psi?? 1 ATA
On one of your old videos you said you were a coxswain, I was wondering what club did you coxied for?
Another great video!
Awsome sea documentary naration, tragic story
Poor decision to load these things aboard, failure to use due caution for the benzoyl, lack of protocols, egos of the captain all led to this tragedy
For comparison, look up the St Nazaire Raid of 1942 when a ship was deliberately used to bomb a harbor.
I can't wait to hear more of your stories, I listen to them on my lunch break
I'll abandon ship at sight of fire, swim to shore and run as hard an far as possible
Awesome video and extremely informative thanks for great disaster content!!!
Great video! This disaster has always fascinated me, hope you will eventually cover the 1947 Texas City disaster
Nationalism has killed and will continue to kill until nations are no more.
I was born and raised in Halifax and it's amazing how little other Canadians know about the explosion, we learned about it every year in class and lived quite near the remnants of the anchor which got blasted thousands of meters from the ship and was made into a memorial for the victims.
Great video, thanks for covering such a wide range of maritime disasters in such an informative way!
I live an hour away from Halifax, and this story is particularly of interest to me, because my great-grandfather was in the city when it happened. Thanks for retelling it.
The part where he had to grab the woman’s baby and run with it as the only way to get her to follow him made me want to cry. Both the desperation to save them both reliant on the mothers love… that hit hard
Oh my god the amount of bad luck is incredible, it even snowed the next day.
Excellent presentation, as always! Easily one of the most enjoyable channels on the platform with the best content. Thanks!
What's the music from?
I’m not a sailor but can 2 ships stop the throttle and maybe even put in reverse??
I have no questions in my mind of what I would do, maybe try to point the ship into the safest direction feasible and then get a heck away from it as fast and far as possible.
No I'm not gonna opine about hypothetical heroism, I'd be running swimming whatever away as fast as I could
Ah, and fuck the Clara and it’s crew as well.
Out of all the ships it had to be that one that crashed….
What an unfortunate name.. Captain Amy Lol-MyDick.