This month Halifax marked the 107th anniversary ... colliding with an empty ship, the Imo. The Mont-Blanc was torn asunder amid the explosion and its fragments scattered around the city.

The Halifax explosion on December 6 ... was leaving the Halifax harbour carrying much-needed war supplies. The Mont-Blanc, a French vessel was approaching from the opposite direction.

Some in the fire-ravaged city have taken to laying personal blame. But what endures from the Canadian disaster is the ...

The water around the Mont Blanc vaporized and pushing a 52-foot-tall tidal wave three blocks into town. Source: NASA Safety Center The force of the explosion lifted the Imo and threw it onto the ...

This happened not in 1945 but in 1917—in Halifax, N.S. It was the largest man-made explosion before Hiroshima. The French freighter Mont Blanc, en route from New York to Bordeaux, entered the ...

1 Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 2 Department of Medicine (Neurology), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 3 Department of Ophthalmology and ...

two ships carrying war supplies collided in Halifax harbour. One ship, the Mont-Blanc, caught fire and ignited 3,000 tonnes of munitions and explosives in its hold. The explosion killed 2,000 ...