On December 6, 1917, the French freighter Mont-Blanc, loaded with 2,900 tons of explosives, collided with the Norwegian ship Imo in the port of Halifax. The ensuing explosion, with a power of 2.9 kilotons of TNT, razed the workers' quarter of Richmond and caused nearly 2,000 deaths and 9,000 injuries. More
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On December 6, 1917, the French freighter Mont-Blanc, loaded with 2,900 tons of explosives, collided with the Norwegian ship Imo in the port of Halifax. The ensuing explosion, with a power of 2.9 kilotons of TNT, razed the workers' quarter of Richmond and caused nearly 2,000 deaths and 9,000 injuries. More