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The Warm Telegraph Key: Halifax's Unforgiven 1917 Blast
The Warm Telegraph Key: Halifax's Unforgiven 1917 Blast
Grim urgency: a telegraph key found warm beneath a dead operator’s hand, and a harbor holding 2,300 tonnes of picric acid, 200 tonnes of TNT, ten tonnes of guncotton and 35 tonnes of benzol - how did ordinary navigational choices turn Halifax into the most dangerous place on earth for a single instant? Who knew the true cargo of the SS Mont-Blanc, and why were no parties ever convicted?
In this episode, you will hear the timeline of the collision in the Narrows on the morning of December 6, 1917, the people on duty at Richmond station…
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