Book of Donmon Teith

In 1917, the port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was crowded with ships leaving for war-torn Europe. On December 6th, two of them-the Mont Blanc and the Imo-collided

On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for war

The events of the horrific Halifax explosion are welldocumented: on December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc andthe Belgian relief ship Imo collid

A riveting account of the collision of two ships—and the worst human-caused explosion in history before Hiroshima—with dozens of photos and illustrations. I