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Why no one was ever convicted for the Halifax explosion, how maritime law failed the deadliest harbor disaster in history
The 1917 Halifax Explosion killed nearly 1,800 people and leveled a city, yet every criminal charge and civil claim eventually collapsed in court. Here's how a chain of navigation blunders, wartime ...
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Before the atomic bomb, the biggest man-made explosion in history leveled a city in 1917 — because two ships bumped into each other
On the morning of December 6, 1917, the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was ...
AT 430. NOTHING THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN, TELEGRAPHED, OR SAID CAN EXPRESS TO YOU THE HORROR OF THE DISASTER OF THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 6TH. WE’RE FROM HALIFAX. A LETTER WRITTEN MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO.
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