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Halifax 1917: The Burning Ship Nobody Warned - Final Telegraph
Halifax 1917: The Burning Ship Nobody Warned - Final Telegraph
A city watched a burning ship for nineteen minutes without knowing it was the most dangerous object on the Atlantic seaboard: 2,300 tons of TNT, picric acid, guncotton and barrels of benzol strapped to her deck. At 9:04:35 the largest human-made detonation to that date levelled neighbourhoods, killed at least 1,782 people and left nine thousand injured - so who, if anyone, could have stopped it?
In this episode, we lay out the chain of delays, decisions and missed warnings that led to the disaster and follow the man who sent the…
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