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![[First Seventh-day Adventist Church in Halifax after the Halifax Explosion of 1917]](/photos/zp-core/full-image.php?a=photographs/b2000&i=b26899450_k0001.jpg&q=100&wmk=watermark&dsp=Protected%20view&check=bbd6f6bc5b1421ca88a43ae1a460e4f2bc63170b)
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| Title: | [First Seventh-day Adventist Church in Halifax after the Halifax Explosion of 1917] |
| Description: | The Halifax Explosion occurred on the morning of Thursday, December 6, 1917. The SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship fully laden with wartime explosives, collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the Narrows, a strait connecting the upper Halifax Harbour to Bedford Basin. Approximately twenty minutes later, a fire on board the French ship ignited her volatile cargo, causing a cataclysmic explosion that devastated the Richmond District of Halifax. Approximately 2,000 people were killed by debris, fires, and collapsed buildings, and it is estimated that nearly 9,000 others were injured. Until the Trinity test that led to the development of the atomic bomb, it was the largest man-made explosion in recorded history with an equivalent force of roughly 2.9 kilotons of Trinitrotoluene (TNT) |
| Created: | 1917-12 |
| Physical Desc: | 1 photograph : black and white ; 6 x 8 cm |
| Physical Reference: | P 012301 |
Citation: 1917-12. [First Seventh-day Adventist Church in Halifax after the Halifax Explosion of 1917]. Database on-line. Center for Adventist Research Image Database. http://centerforadventistresearch.org/photos (accessed May 17, 2024).