#Halifax explosion

[sweetmeatdale]

#history #halifax #Halifax explosion #mont blanc #imo #tumblr polls #polls

[evishinsecurities]

yuri is when two ships (one containing mass amounts of high explosives) collide in the harbor resulting in the largest man made explosion prior to the invention of the atom bomb

#halifax explosion #yuri

[vox-anglosphere]

105 years ago today, most of Halifax was flattened when two ships collided in the foggy harbour. The massive explosion left 1900 dead, 9000 injured and 12,000 homes destroyed. The city of Boston was the first to send help.

#Halifax explosion #WWI #Nova Scotia #6 December 1917 #munitions ship #maritime disaster #history #On this day

[byebyeskylark]

Just gone done crying over the RMS Carpathia, so I thought maybe folks would want another "look for the helpers" story.

This is, indeed, a fascinating instance of poor decisions all around, but there are two things that make me cry:

- The city of Boston was one of the first to send aid to Halifax: in thanks, Nova Scotia sends them a Christmas tree every year to this day

- Train dispatcher Vince Coleman, with ample warning of the impending disaster, was running from the docks when he turned around and ran back, knowing he would die, to telegraph a warning to stop all incoming trains. He saved the lives of 300 people.

Be sure to take a look at the comments.

#halifax explosion #this channel is great he always makes a point of showing how laws or regulations changed due to a disaster

[beardedmrbean]

#doge #halifax explosion 1917 #halifax explosion #le if you want to see what americans can do check out how we responded has arrived #le our efforts make me swell with pride has arrived #le loading up trains with goods to help and sending them #before even knowing what all was needed #so we sent everything has arrived #le eternal friendship between halifax and boston has arrived

[elderbeariez]

#rare bear selfie #idk i was feeling cute #halifax explosion #ok to rb

[kingofdoma]

you don’t expect a heritage minute to hit like a mack truck, but there it is

#halifax explosion #heritage minutes

[memoires-blessees]

Something about crying quietly to oneself in a section of a museum dedicated to a tragedy on my own home soil - in my country - is so frighteningly human. I felt more alive there than I had in years. I was crying for people who had not been alive in decades, perhaps even a century. I was crying for the innocents who didn't know what was happening and suffered anyway. I was crying for the man who saved hundreds and hundreds of lives, and the trains that came to aid the town's people because of him.

“Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys.”

#halifax explosion #the maritime museum #Atticus Hope #the maritimes #canada #the halifax explosion #history #museum #history museum #da #dark academia #dark academic #light academia #light academic #yearning academia #yearning #canadian history

[rabbitcruiser]

Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.

#Halifax Explosion #6 December 1917 #105th anniversary #Canadian history #St. Paul’s Church #City Hall #historic properties #Halifax Town Clock #Halifax #Nova Scotia #Canada #architecture #cityscape #tourist attraction #landmark #travel #vacation #summer 2015 #original photography #Halifax Boardwalk #Atlantic Ocean #WWI #World War I

[mey-rin-is-fabulous]

Oh yeah so if you've been around here for any length of time you might know I am obsessed with the Halifax Explosion. I got obsessed with that event after reading the Dear Canada book No Safe Harbour: the Halifax Explosion Diary of Charlotte Blackburn anywhere from 8 to 10 years old I was always a history nut as a kid and I found the Dear Canada series in the library and NSH was the first book I read from it and it is still my favourite of all of them (I remember the title and who it's the diary of all the girls are fictional) and I now own it after wanting a copy of it for years. My mom found a listing on marketplace and got them for me also came with Orphan at My Door the homechild diary another favourite and even the Titanic diary which guess what the bodies from the Titanic were brought to Halifax which only 5 years later got levelled besides where the rich people lived(guess which community got decimated the most) in the biggest man made explosion before nukes were a thing (if you guessed the black community you are correct they lived closest to the docks)

#dear canada #halifax explosion #i have another book about the explosion #i couldn't put it down #it was fascinating #and everyone outside halifax and I think boston forgot about it #because it was so localized and so far from the frontlines of the war #like these ships collided levelled a city and it's still not 100% clear what happened #dear canada doesn't pull punches they cover a lot of things #like the reason why canada needs to help ukraine #back during the war there were ukrainian internment camps and it was bad #there's a book about the metis as well the red river rebellion #a book about the treatment of chinese immigrants #and the treatment of jewish people during the war as well #also a book covering the battle of the plains of abraham #the most recent one is about the residential schools #the filles du roi diary is heartbreaking #so is the one about the irish immigrants #i could go on and on about these books

[historydailyfrancischappellblack]

At 9:05 a.m., in Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia, Canada, the Most Destructive Man-Made Explosion in the Pre-Atomic Age Ensued When the Mont Blanc, a French Munitions Ship, Exploded 20 Minutes After Striking Another Vessel. December 6, 1917.

Image: SS Imo aground on the Dartmouth side of the harbour after the explosion. (Public Domain). On this day in history, December 6, 1917, at 9:05 a.m., in Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia, Canada, the most destructive man-made explosion in the pre-atomic age ensued when the Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, exploded 20 minutes after striking another vessel. As World War I continued in Europe,…

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#1910s #Canada #Halifax Explosion #Imo #Mont Blanc #Nova Scotia #World War I

[itsrockinronnie]

My most recent Hunsruck Clock evokes memories of my first Junghans clock

While working on one of my latest acquisitions, a Junghans Hunsruck mantel clock, memories flooded back to the first Junghans clock I ever owned, a Junghans Crispi wall clock, that I still have to this day. Junghans Hunsruck C. 1913 It was a humble box of parts when it first came to me, but I was determined to bring it back to life. Junghans clock in pieces, not unlike a jigsaw puzzle The…

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#antique #antique clock #clock #clocks #collecting #collector #halifax explosion #horology #hunsruck by Junghans #Junghans crispi #time and strike #Wall clock

[randomrichards]

THE FLYING SAILOR:

Sailor strolling by

Has near death experience

When 2 ships explode

#the flying sailor #random richards #poem #haiku #poetry #haiku poem #poets on tumblr #haiku poetry #haiku form #the new yorker #academy award nominee #best animated short #halifax explosion #amanda forbis #wendy tilby #Youtube

[paddysnuffles]

Hey @allthecanadianpolitics, this isn't exactly news, but I came across a really neat (Canadian) short animation about the Halifax Explosion that I think fellow Canadians might enjoy:

For context, when the explosion happened, some people were thrown several blocks away and somehow ended up perfectly alright (albeit naked).

#nova scotia #halifax explosion #canada #canadian history #world history #short film #animated film #Youtube

[zsazsagapoor]

That feeling when you need your back to crack and it just won’t and you’re twisting so hard you’re about to bust a rib just like

#back crack #spine #Halifax explosion #acknowledge #heritage minute

[jovialtorchlight]

poem from 2013

Your hands on the grass,

cross-legged and pale skinned

we talk of infinity and the like; we talk of seeing dead

heroes

in the cloudy dregs of cold tea

seeing our future in the morethanhalf sipped past

seeing holy figures in salvation army rags

bought half price only halfyet worn,

seeing futility in the bitter earwhippingwind,

while slipping on hats

kept in pockets, hats that fold

right above the ears

we fake inadequacy for fear of  

being able to do something right

for once in our transparent, pale lives.

Because when you're right

You have to prove it

and i can't prove anything 

to anyone;

Still, our rears and ears are cold

and there’s something to be said for missing someone as

my hands tend to move toward other, smaller hands

with a flockherd instinct.

I apologize if you saw that twitch of a muscle’s instinct,

that little creeping movement

for in actuality there’s nothing to be done for missing someone

except dream;

like i secretly hold your fingertips

in that moment before

i fall asleep and guard this fact

for fear of being inadequate to you.

I dream of hats that cover over my ears,

warm and safe while

together we practice divination in the bottom of teacups,

and love bright and full lives

vibrant, float in that wind

then i wake.

Today, we walk up endless hills, from the harbor,

 protecting what was lost in 1917

Ashes of bone feed the Garden’s growth,

and in the soil, where the great red flowers grow straight

in the soil where your mother sleeps,

we

have a picnic, like

if the world were to erupt right now, and

you and i went to the window to gazewith a child's eyes, we

would be blinded by shrapnel,

but blind seers seem to sing truer than those who

seek with fleeting words and sight.

Blind seers do it better.

If the Arbor were to explode once more i vow i’d protect the little fingers

from the explosion

but in our little picnic

i want to move towards them

i want to trace

them and grasp

them in my own

and read the future

in the pulp at the bottom of your lemonade

and the circular valley of your palms

but i’m silent

and still my ears are cold

because my hat folds

over my ears

#halifax #halifax explosion #poem