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The dangerous harbour : revealing the unknown ships and wrecks of the Halifax Explosion / Bob Chaulk.

by Chaulk, Bob.

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Nimbus Publishing, 2023.

Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917.

Shipwrecks -- Nova Scotia -- History.

9781774712405 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Revealing the unknown ships and wrecks of the Halifax Explosion

242 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

"On the morning of December 6, 1917, ships and boats were in constant movement in Halifax Harbour. The First World War was in its fourth year and Halifax, the closest mainland North American naval port to Europe, was feeling its effect. At 8:45 A.M., the SS Mont-Blanc and the SS Imo collided. Minutes later, a powerful explosion devastated the city. Not only were homes and businesses devastated and civilians killed; when the explosion occurred, there were roughly two hundred vessels in the harbour, from warships to fishing schooners, coming and going with people and goods that had to get to Europe to support the war. Some were destroyed, ending up at the bottom of the harbour. Of the nearly two thousand people who lost their lives that day, hundreds were sailors and others associated with those ships. Using primary historical records and drawing on the author's personal experience of more than twelve hundred dives in Halifax Harbour, 'The Dangerous Harbour: Revealing the Unknown Ships and Wrecks of the Halifax Explosion' examines who was on the harbour that day and what became of the vessels in the vicinity of the explosion -- and why...(...)"--Back cover.

Bob Chaulk is a Halifax writer and recreational scuba diver. This is his sixth book about Atlantic Canada and the sea, two of which focused on the more than 1,200 dives he has done in Halifax Harbour, including the area where the Halifax Explosion occurred.

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