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SS Mont-Blanc
The SS ''Mont-Blanc'' was a freighter built in Middlesbrough, England in 1899 and purchased by the French company, Société Générale de Transport Maritime (SGTM).〔() "The History of Mont Blanc" from the French Lines website.〕 On Thursday morning, 6 December 1917, she entered Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada laden with a full cargo of highly volatile explosives. As she made her way through the Narrows towards Bedford Basin, she was involved in a collision with the Norwegian ship, . A fire aboard the French ship ignited her cargo of wet and dry picric acid, TNT, and guncotton. The resultant Halifax Explosion levelled the Richmond District and killed approximately 2,000 people.
==Origins==
A classic three-island style, general cargo steamship, ''Mont-Blanc'' was a tramp steamer, carrying diverse types of cargos around the world. The ship changed owners several times and was registered at first in Marseille, then Rouen and finally Saint-Nazaire, France. In World War I, ''Mont-Blanc'' was purchased from Gaston Petit on 28 December 1915 by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique CGT (The French Line),〔() "The History of Mont Blanc"〕 the French state-owned corporation which was took charge of much of France's wartime shipping.
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