The cloud rising-up from the colossal (>2kiloton) explosion @ Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, as a result of a collision between the »SS Mont Blanc« , which was the one laden with the munitions, & the »SS Imo« in the sound around which Halifax lies, on this day, 1917-December-6_ͭ_ͪ . [1600×1249]

Halifax, in addition to being a major Port in-general, as it still is, was @ the time a vital location in the transatlantic oceanliner trade, being, amongst other things, a place to which liners on their way to America would take recourse if they got low on fuel … an exigency (although not actually _a real_ one, as it happened) that was the occasion of the

####[wrecking of the »SS Atlantic« on »Meagher’s Island«](https://www.throughouthistory.com/?p=4712) ,
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just off the coast of Nova Scotia, on __1873-April-1^(st)__ .

 

And some wwwebsites about it, the first one being the one I got the image from.

The Halifax explosion: The naval accident that erased an entire city in Canada, 1917

https://www.halifaxexplosion.net/halifaxexplosion/blastcloud5.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-explosion-anniversary-destruction-1.3883174

http://www.halifaxexplosion.net/blastcloudmyth.html

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/books/2017/11/06/book-great-halifax-explosion-world-war-story-treachery-tragedy-extraordinary-heroism-john-bacon/107417732/

Sacrifice, Morality, and the Halifax Explosion

ｈｔｔｐｓ：／／ｗｗｗ．google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2841066/amp/Unique-photographs-taken-WWI-sailor-biggest-manmade-explosion-history-two-warships-crashed-other.html

####[There’s actually also an excellent movie about it](https://youtu.be/7sdUMynja1I) .
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####[See also this post](https://np.reddit.com/r/titanic/s/4z91MlGqji)
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@

####r/OceanlinerPorn
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for more images.

 

by Biquasquibrisance