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DZ Season 011 Part 02 Disastrous Shipwrecks Mt Blanc Halifax City Destroyed.
On 14-15 April 1912, the mighty, unsinkable, Titanic struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. It took just 2 hours and 40 minutes for the Titanic to sink. 1,500 lives were lost. The people who died with the sinking of the Titanic died alone – in the middle of a vast ocean.
But the sinking of the Titanic was not the greatest disaster at sea with the greatest loss of life. In today’s programme I’m going to tell you about a disaster that was far greater and happened in the safety of a port, in the heart of a modern Canadian city, Halifax. This is the horrific story of the sinking of the steamship Mt Blanc in 1917 and the consequences of that sinking. It could happen in any modern seaport – even today.
Tag words: Titanic; Halifax; Nova Scotia; Mt Blanc; Mont Blanc; World War I; Royal Navy; Battle of Jutland; Taliban; GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb; The Mother of All Bombs; SS Imo; Benzol; Vincent Coleman; J Robert Oppenheimer; father of the atomic bomb; Hiroshima; HMCS Acadia; Frank Baker; Governor Samuel W. McCall; Massachusetts-Halifax Relief Committee; Thomas Raddall;
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By Paul FordyceOn 14-15 April 1912, the mighty, unsinkable, Titanic struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. It took just 2 hours and 40 minutes for the Titanic to sink. 1,500 lives were lost. The people who died with the sinking of the Titanic died alone – in the middle of a vast ocean.
But the sinking of the Titanic was not the greatest disaster at sea with the greatest loss of life. In today’s programme I’m going to tell you about a disaster that was far greater and happened in the safety of a port, in the heart of a modern Canadian city, Halifax. This is the horrific story of the sinking of the steamship Mt Blanc in 1917 and the consequences of that sinking. It could happen in any modern seaport – even today.
Tag words: Titanic; Halifax; Nova Scotia; Mt Blanc; Mont Blanc; World War I; Royal Navy; Battle of Jutland; Taliban; GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb; The Mother of All Bombs; SS Imo; Benzol; Vincent Coleman; J Robert Oppenheimer; father of the atomic bomb; Hiroshima; HMCS Acadia; Frank Baker; Governor Samuel W. McCall; Massachusetts-Halifax Relief Committee; Thomas Raddall;