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The Halifax Explosion of 1917 could easily have been prevented by taking appropriate safety precautions, and by planning ahead. ...
Halifax Harbour is one of the finest and safest harbours in the world. ... Halifax provided a haven from this. ... , the SS Mont Blanc, a French munitions vessel, prepared to sail into the Halifax harbour on the way from New York back to Europe. ... The SS Imo was a Norwegian relief ship, travelling from Halifax to New York to pick up supplies. ...
At 9:05, the Mont Blanc exploded: the most powerful explosion ever, until Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The blast flattened three point two square kilometers of Halifax. ... Since there were twenty minutes between the collision and the explosion, people had ample time to run to the waterfront to get ringside seats to the burning ship in harbour, ample time to run to their death. This act put them well within the range of the explosion, which killed almost all of them. ... Three thousand tons of disintegrated ship and thousands of rocks sucked up from the harbour bed rained down on Halifax harbour, blinding, crippling or killing the remainder of the eager spectators. ... The worst blizzard to hit Halifax in years dropped forty centimeters of snow over the ruins. “It was almost as if Fate, unconvinced that the exploding chemicals in the hold of the Mont Blanc had struck a death blow to Halifax, was now calling upon nature to administer the coup de grace”.
Approximate Word count = 1074
Approximate Pages = 4.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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