Today is (was) the anniversary of the Halifax Explosion (12/6/1917).
2 ships—one carrying carrying explosives—collided in Halifax harbor, triggering the largest man-made explosion prior to the development of nuclear weapons, and killing over 1600 people, including numerous onlookers on shore.
🇨🇦 Some Halifax Explosion artifacts pulled from the harbor will have a new home
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-explosion-artifacts-mont-blanc-9.6996705
video: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7004966
A car-size chunk will be placed on display outside the Naval Museum of Halifax
#Halifax #NovaScotia #CanadasOceanPlayground #HalifaxExplosion #CanadianHistory
How Halifax explosion relates to Oppenheimer/atomic bomb
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110778031119098039
#OTD in #NavalHistory, 6 December 1917: HMSs Changuinola and Knight Templar witnessed the #HalifaxExplosion.
The images show how they reported it in their deck logs.
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If you know your #history and your #chemistry, this minor story from 2 days ago is chilling:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/evacuation-alert-mackay-bridge-chemical-spill-1.7438661
"#MacKayBridge reopens, evacuation order lifted after chemical scare"
You may know the largest artificial non-nuclear #explosion was the #HalifaxExplosion in 1917. 1,950 died. The main culprit was a now obscure chemical but at the time widely used as a wartime explosive:
picric acid
The culprit for the evacuation in #Halifax and #Dartmouth two days ago?
picric acid
The evacuation alert at Mackay Bridge #Halifax was due to a deteriorated bottle of Picric Acid at Bedford Institute of Oceanography.
What's Picric Acid?
Well it was once carried by the SS Mont-Blanc, just metres from where the BIO now stands. The rest is history. #HalifaxExplosion
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/evacuation-alert-mackay-bridge-chemical-spill-1.7438661
The #HalifaxExplosion was equivalent to 2.9 kilotons of TNT
@Rickd6 No, but today marks the anniversary of the #HalifaxExplosion
On the morning of 6 December 1917, the French cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
At least 1,782 people were killed, largely in Halifax and Dartmouth, by the blast, debris, fires, or collapsed buildings, and an estimated 9,000 others were injured.
#OTD in #NavalHistory, 6 December 1917: HMS Highflyer witnessed the #HalifaxExplosion, was damaged and suffered casualties.
She recorded the following in her log-book: '9:08am: Mont Blanc exploded (cargo, ammunition previously unknown) causing large wave and setting Richmond on fire'.
Well, sunset this evening didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, but I got a shot of the anchor from the #HalifaxExplosion that I'm fairly happy with. I do miss the cute little library that used to be at this spot though, lots of childhood memories from that place.
#photography #Dartmouth #NovaScotia #memorial #KasmirPhotography
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