Great video, Kabir. Fascinating Horror is a good channel and I have watched many of his videos. This incident is not unlike your "Idiots in Cars" series except it's Idiots in Boats with an absolutely catastrophic outcome and not at all humorous. Thank You from Canada!
Check out the movie of the Broadway show “Come from Away,” and you’ll see Canadians helping Americans. We are forever grateful for their help. Friendship 🇺🇸🇨🇦
Kabir, thanks for the video and explanation of what went on. I knew of the Halifax but never knew the whole story. Then hearing about the Christmas tree really tugged at my heart, what a great gesture. 😢😢❤❤
The Halifax and Boston friendship wouldn't be the last time that a tragedy would create a deep friendship with the Halifax citizens and US citizens. On 9/11 7,000 passengers landed in Halifax after U.S. airspace was shut down. The Halifax citizens went above and beyond to help the stranded "plane people". They opened their homes up, fed them, the local stores gave them clothes and essential items and pharmacies refilled prescriptions for free. Not a single Halifax citizen would accept payment. The people Halifax and Nova Scotia are just built different. This actually inspired a award winning Broadway show about the events that took place in Halifax on and after 9/11
@@johnt8636 Gander accommodated them too and it doesn't matter who took more planes. You both did your parts. Gander got a documentary simply because the town was only 10,000 people and managed to take in, feed, clothe, etc. all the people
Couple pertinent facts not mentioned in the video; Normally, ammo ships and the like, would not have been allowed to berth within the harbour. But that restriction was temporarily recinded because of the war. Also, ammo ships were required to fly a red flag, as a notice to those around them, of the dangerous cargo..but that rule too, was temporarily suspended for the war. And, to my mind, *that u.s. ship coming into the harbor, in the wrong lane, forcing the Imo to change course, should shoulder half of, if not ALL of, the blame for the ensuing tragedy.* 🤨
Just for reference in scale - Halifax is the Capital of Nova Scotia, and was then, as it is now, the largest City in the Province - whose population was about 500,000 in 1917. I have heard the tale of "Vince" Colman numerous times, but I still shed tears thinking of a man who knowingly sacrificed his own life to save others. Boston received news of the disaster by telegraph just 2 hours after the explosion, and managed to organize a relief train and get it the roughly 650 miles to Halifax within 48 hours - an amazing effort.
I remember seeing his watch and telegraph key visiting Halifax many years ago. My Grandmother was a survivor of this catastrophe. A fact my family is very grateful for !
I was born and raised in Nova Scotia not far from where the Halifax explosion occurred. Have spent many hours around and on the Halifax harbour. I have a You tube channel with an original song called " The Imo/pronounced Emo. The song was inspired by a book by Janet MayBee called "AFTERSHOCK " . The harbour pilot that guided the Mont Blanc Mr. Francis Mackey was prosecuted for the fatality and had his license revoked losing his livelihood and all he owned taken from him. He had a large family and it took him years for his record to be cleared by Ottawa. Also the collision was not averted because the 2 ships maneuvering was very slow and even though they knew they would collide could not avoid each other. It's interesting to note also that the Imo was repaired and used as a depot ship until it was sold for surplus and then scrapped. This event was such a horrible tradigy and will never be forgotten.
I’ve been subscribed to “Fascinating Horror “ for years. A great RUclips channel. I’ve seen this one before, so looking to see your reaction to it. He has a lot of these Disaster videos and well done too. 📻🙂
Yay I Love Fascinating Horror channel! It's so good and has an oddly calming voice while telling us about horrible things. So both of you together is heaven to me. This episode was so tragic. The guy who went back saved so many lives. I was glad you kept watching to hear about him.
You should really watch the Canadian Heritage Minute on this, and maybe a handful heritage minutes while you’re at it. They were brief commercials about things important to our history in some way shape or form. The Underground Railroad, the discovery of insulin, residential schools, the list goes on.
To get an idea of the size / impact of the explosion : the 2020 Beyrouth explosion (which blast was captured on film) would have been smaller than Halifax's.
I've lived in Hfx my whole life. The Halifax Explosion is something I can tell you about in my sleep...lol. Telling the story, showing the sights has been part of my job for 20+ years. Any questions, just fire away. Fascinating Horror has about the best RUclips vid on the subject, but it's not perfect. Ie: Halifax is not a "town." It's been the capital *city* of Nova Scotia since 1749...lol In today's terms, the blast was a magnitude of 2.9 kilotons. Submarine nets are not raised and lowered, the are opened and closed. Vessels called "gate ships" are used to effectively open or close a gate in the net. Remember, the crew of the Mont Blanc were French. They were yelling at people on shore in French. People couldn't understand them. But a quick-thinking crewmember grabbed a baby from its mother's arms and started running. So naturally, an angry crowd chased him inland from the shore. He saved some lives. It's actually part of Mont Blanc's anchor, the shank, weight 1,140 lbs that flew that far. Her gun barrel, which landed on the Dartmouth side, travelled less than 3km. If you want to really learn about the Halifax Explosion, I would recommend the book Too Many To Mourn. It goes into great detail of the blast (like the shockwave of 17,000 km per hour) and about some of the people/families involved. My wife's family lost 42 members & extended family members in the blast. Hey Kabir, nice to see you take a look at Canada for a change. Keep it up. You'll be impressed.
My family has been in the Dutch Village area since 1751, and many of the men in my family were shipyard workers. That day my great grandfather was working in the hull of a ship at the shipyard. The blast knocked him out and he came to on the other end of the ship. My grandfather was in school, his classroom was on an upper floor, he had no memory of how he got out of the school, just that he ran home and lost his favourite coat that day. His other siblings attended schools closer to home in the West End and were all fine. The family home was shielded from the shock wave by the upward slopes of the North End, some windows cracked, but no major damage. Cousins in Bible Hill felt the shaking of the blast. Somehow my family lost no one in the explosion
If you ever have the chance to spend a few days in Halifax be certain to go see the maritime museum of the Atlantic. If you can schedule a city tour afterwards it will be incredibly educational and enlightening. How this explosion affected the city can not be overstated. The most powerful man made non nuclear explosion in history. If that time to explore Halifax ever does happen also include a tour of the Citadel on top of the hill overlooking the city. The commanders used to fire canons fired off at 9 pm (I think it was 9) to tell all the troops drinking in the taverns around town that they had one hour to get back to the barracks. Another lesser known historic venue to check out is the cemetery. The bodies recovered from the sinking of the Titanic are buried there in Halifax. A large monument of sorts at the main one with two smaller cemeteries also getting some of the burials. You can buy a book at the shops that will help you locate specific passenger grave markers if you want. A great city filled with lots of history and lots of future.
Fascinating Horror is a great channel -- well-researched and narrated stories of all kinds of disasters, natural and man-made, never any gory images, and usually ending with a positive outcome. I live in Houston, Texas, and there was a similar ship explosion in 1947 in Texas City near me. Fascinating Horror has a video on it -- "The Texas City Disaster"
One thing about the captain of the Imo, Captain From, is he was known for having a short temper, so, it is believed that the delay of coal and then having to give way to two other ships/boats caused his anger to boil over. Being blinded with anger would explain why he did not want to yield to the MB.
According to Wikipedia, the people of Halifax tended to have strong anti-French opinions. But why, since the UK and its Dominion nations were allies with France? I'm almost certain that "anti-French" feelings were an extension of the "anti-French-Canadian" feelings among Anglo-Canadians. As I understand it, French-Canadians at the time also held strong feelings against Anglos, and probably had more cause to feel that way. In 2003, CBC Television produced a made-for-TV movie called "Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion." I enjoyed it for what it is, but it does contain unnecessary historical inaccuracies, and its running time is lengthened by the melodramatic subplots typical of disaster movies.
Such a tragedy! Unfortunately what usually is going on in these sorts of situations is a captain that is behind schedule trying to make up for lost time because their job is on the line if they're late or cost the company money. So they take unecessary risk. Risk that they may have taken hundreds of times before during their careers without issues but all it takes is the one time and disaster. Based on the video this captain was probably running far behind by the delays and being forced into an overnight stay and then after finally getting underway he has 2 other ships in the wrong lane causing him to swerve and make him more delayed. I'm guessing frustration set in and in that moment he was probably angry and refused to be the one to make room this time. Like someone frustrated in traffic refusing to let yet another person into your lane. I can almost guarantee he had no idea the other ship wouldn't yield and they certainly didn't know what the cargo of the other ship was or the added risks. Obviously he made a bad choice or several choices even but I alway remind myself hindsight is 20/20 but in the moment people generally don't think that far ahead. Especially if emotions are involved. It's a sad part of human nature that is why we have such rigorous training for ship captains nowadays. Training they didn't have back then.
See, look at that map, it happened not strait, close to that sharp point a little out there.that's why Africville is a lot to us. see hump, that was the, and died.
True, but just because he may have yielded to 2 , doesn’t give him permission to not yield to another, or another, just like driving a truck. However it is true there may be have been other factors not known.
Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about the Johnstown flood? Like it’s so hard to find any decent videos about that anywhere despite the fact that it was the largest man-made disaster in the United States on record before 911.
This person don't know what talking about. out of the 10000 people were black, that's why that zone is safe and remembered.only like 3000 was white. it hit far, as said 120, 60 miles is far.
As a lifelong Boston girl, we appreciate the beautiful tree they send us every year.
And also Brad Marchand!
You're more then welcome, eh.
Thank you for your support.
My son only recently moved to Boston. I'll have to share this story with him.
Cheers and love from Halifax! :)
As a Canadian, I'm glad to hear America's were sending aid to help right away.
Fascinating Horror is a favorite, I’d certainly watch more of your reactions to these. I always catch their videos
Great video, Kabir. Fascinating Horror is a good channel and I have watched many of his videos. This incident is not unlike your "Idiots in Cars" series except it's Idiots in Boats with an absolutely catastrophic outcome and not at all humorous. Thank You from Canada!
The Boston Christmas tree (from Halifax) is beautiful every year. It will be forever bittersweet because a civil friendship was born out of tragedy.
Check out the movie of the Broadway show “Come from Away,” and you’ll see Canadians helping Americans. We are forever grateful for their help. Friendship 🇺🇸🇨🇦
cheers and love from Halifax!
Please keep reacting to Fascinating Horror!
This channel is awesome, love all his videos.
I live in Canada and my Mom was born in Halifax this was the most devastating explosion in Canada. Such a sad story 😢🇨🇦
Kabir, thanks for the video and explanation of what went on. I knew of the Halifax but never knew the whole story. Then hearing about the Christmas tree really tugged at my heart, what a great gesture. 😢😢❤❤
The Halifax and Boston friendship wouldn't be the last time that a tragedy would create a deep friendship with the Halifax citizens and US citizens. On 9/11 7,000 passengers landed in Halifax after U.S. airspace was shut down. The Halifax citizens went above and beyond to help the stranded "plane people". They opened their homes up, fed them, the local stores gave them clothes and essential items and pharmacies refilled prescriptions for free. Not a single Halifax citizen would accept payment.
The people Halifax and Nova Scotia are just built different. This actually inspired a award winning Broadway show about the events that took place in Halifax on and after 9/11
That indeed happened, but the town was Gander, Newfoundland, not Halifax.
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You are correct of course, but Halifax did take more planes than Gander. Difference is, we could accommodate them.
Dude, how did you screw that up?
@@johnt8636 Gander accommodated them too and it doesn't matter who took more planes. You both did your parts. Gander got a documentary simply because the town was only 10,000 people and managed to take in, feed, clothe, etc. all the people
Couple pertinent facts not mentioned in the video;
Normally, ammo ships and the like, would not have been allowed to berth within the harbour. But that restriction was temporarily recinded because of the war.
Also, ammo ships were required to fly a red flag, as a notice to those around them, of the dangerous cargo..but that rule too, was temporarily suspended for the war.
And, to my mind, *that u.s. ship coming into the harbor, in the wrong lane, forcing the Imo to change course, should shoulder half of, if not ALL of, the blame for the ensuing tragedy.* 🤨
"Just follow the instructions man."Made me laugh and with your accent
Please do more videos from Fascinating Horror
Just for reference in scale - Halifax is the Capital of Nova Scotia, and was then, as it is now, the largest City in the Province - whose population was about 500,000 in 1917.
I have heard the tale of "Vince" Colman numerous times, but I still shed tears thinking of a man who knowingly sacrificed his own life to save others.
Boston received news of the disaster by telegraph just 2 hours after the explosion, and managed to organize a relief train and get it the roughly 650 miles to Halifax within 48 hours -
an amazing effort.
I remember seeing his watch and telegraph key visiting Halifax many years ago. My Grandmother was a survivor of this catastrophe. A fact my family is very grateful for !
I was born and raised in Nova Scotia not far from where the Halifax explosion occurred. Have spent many hours around and on the Halifax harbour. I have a You tube channel with an original song called " The Imo/pronounced Emo. The song was inspired by a book by Janet MayBee called "AFTERSHOCK " . The harbour pilot that guided the Mont Blanc Mr. Francis Mackey was prosecuted for the fatality and had his license revoked losing his livelihood and all he owned taken from him. He had a large family and it took him years for his record to be cleared by Ottawa. Also the collision was not averted because the 2 ships maneuvering was very slow and even though they knew they would collide could not avoid each other. It's interesting to note also that the Imo was repaired and used as a depot ship until it was sold for surplus and then scrapped. This event was such a horrible tradigy and will never be forgotten.
I ent that museum. A lot of the displays are devoted to Halifax’s part in the rescue of bodies in the Titanic.
Recovery of bodies. There was no need to rescue them.
Thanks for doing this. I've never heard of it before.
It’s a great channel.
Lots of these videos. He does a fantastic job - research, and presentation.
📻🙂
Love this channel
You should definitely react to more of his videos
I’ve been subscribed to “Fascinating Horror “ for years. A great RUclips channel.
I’ve seen this one before, so looking to see your reaction to it.
He has a lot of these Disaster videos and well done too.
📻🙂
Yay I Love Fascinating Horror channel! It's so good and has an oddly calming voice while telling us about horrible things. So both of you together is heaven to me.
This episode was so tragic. The guy who went back saved so many lives. I was glad you kept watching to hear about him.
You should really watch the Canadian Heritage Minute on this, and maybe a handful heritage minutes while you’re at it. They were brief commercials about things important to our history in some way shape or form. The Underground Railroad, the discovery of insulin, residential schools, the list goes on.
Ya, there's a few youtubers who have gone through the heritage minutes and their always great to watch. Would love to get Kabir's take on them!
You are great dude. You bring a smile when I am down
To get an idea of the size / impact of the explosion : the 2020 Beyrouth explosion (which blast was captured on film) would have been smaller than Halifax's.
I've lived in Hfx my whole life. The Halifax Explosion is something I can tell you about in my sleep...lol. Telling the story, showing the sights has been part of my job for 20+ years. Any questions, just fire away.
Fascinating Horror has about the best RUclips vid on the subject, but it's not perfect. Ie: Halifax is not a "town." It's been the capital *city* of Nova Scotia since 1749...lol
In today's terms, the blast was a magnitude of 2.9 kilotons.
Submarine nets are not raised and lowered, the are opened and closed. Vessels called "gate ships" are used to effectively open or close a gate in the net.
Remember, the crew of the Mont Blanc were French. They were yelling at people on shore in French. People couldn't understand them. But a quick-thinking crewmember grabbed a baby from its mother's arms and started running. So naturally, an angry crowd chased him inland from the shore. He saved some lives.
It's actually part of Mont Blanc's anchor, the shank, weight 1,140 lbs that flew that far. Her gun barrel, which landed on the Dartmouth side, travelled less than 3km.
If you want to really learn about the Halifax Explosion, I would recommend the book Too Many To Mourn. It goes into great detail of the blast (like the shockwave of 17,000 km per hour) and about some of the people/families involved. My wife's family lost 42 members & extended family members in the blast.
Hey Kabir, nice to see you take a look at Canada for a change. Keep it up. You'll be impressed.
My family has been in the Dutch Village area since 1751, and many of the men in my family were shipyard workers.
That day my great grandfather was working in the hull of a ship at the shipyard. The blast knocked him out and he came to on the other end of the ship.
My grandfather was in school, his classroom was on an upper floor, he had no memory of how he got out of the school, just that he ran home and lost his favourite coat that day. His other siblings attended schools closer to home in the West End and were all fine.
The family home was shielded from the shock wave by the upward slopes of the North End, some windows cracked, but no major damage.
Cousins in Bible Hill felt the shaking of the blast. Somehow my family lost no one in the explosion
I heard a story where a guy would throw a cigarette butt in the gas and it didn't light. It's the fumes that get you.
If you ever have the chance to spend a few days in Halifax be certain to go see the maritime museum of the Atlantic. If you can schedule a city tour afterwards it will be incredibly educational and enlightening. How this explosion affected the city can not be overstated. The most powerful man made non nuclear explosion in history.
If that time to explore Halifax ever does happen also include a tour of the Citadel on top of the hill overlooking the city.
The commanders used to fire canons fired off at 9 pm (I think it was 9) to tell all the troops drinking in the taverns around town that they had one hour to get back to the barracks.
Another lesser known historic venue to check out is the cemetery. The bodies recovered from the sinking of the Titanic are buried there in Halifax. A large monument of sorts at the main one with two smaller cemeteries also getting some of the burials. You can buy a book at the shops that will help you locate specific passenger grave markers if you want.
A great city filled with lots of history and lots of future.
Fascinating Horror is a great channel -- well-researched and narrated stories of all kinds of disasters, natural and man-made, never any gory images, and usually ending with a positive outcome. I live in Houston, Texas, and there was a similar ship explosion in 1947 in Texas City near me. Fascinating Horror has a video on it -- "The Texas City Disaster"
One thing about the captain of the Imo, Captain From, is he was known for having a short temper, so, it is believed that the delay of coal and then having to give way to two other ships/boats caused his anger to boil over. Being blinded with anger would explain why he did not want to yield to the MB.
recall reading a novel about it called barometer rising I think when I was much younger⚛😀
It rattled the dishes in my grandmothers cupboard 160km away ...
The end made me tear up.
The Mont knew what they were carrying, they should not have been so cavalier. The other ship should not have been on the wrong side of the narrows.
F H is a great channel !
Perfect for dark stories
There is a lovely little vignette on the explosion...link below.
Hi Kabir! It's tragic how spur of the moment decisions can lead to such horrific consequences.
Boston also. Watch out.
Highly rec the video on the Byford-Dolphin Incident.
According to Wikipedia, the people of Halifax tended to have strong anti-French opinions. But why, since the UK and its Dominion nations were allies with France? I'm almost certain that "anti-French" feelings were an extension of the "anti-French-Canadian" feelings among Anglo-Canadians. As I understand it, French-Canadians at the time also held strong feelings against Anglos, and probably had more cause to feel that way.
In 2003, CBC Television produced a made-for-TV movie called "Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion." I enjoyed it for what it is, but it does contain unnecessary historical inaccuracies, and its running time is lengthened by the melodramatic subplots typical of disaster movies.
Look at map, see straight, no in basin and a little south, as said near sharp water, north west a little. boom.
That is true, but he's just doing what we said.
And Halifax was a naval outpost.
The Halifax Moosehead is a great Hockey Jersey
Thanks for watching the video I suggested Kabir! Hope you found it interesting.
It is the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion in history, it was equivalent to 2.9 kilotons.
It looks like a nuke went off.
Such a tragedy! Unfortunately what usually is going on in these sorts of situations is a captain that is behind schedule trying to make up for lost time because their job is on the line if they're late or cost the company money. So they take unecessary risk. Risk that they may have taken hundreds of times before during their careers without issues but all it takes is the one time and disaster. Based on the video this captain was probably running far behind by the delays and being forced into an overnight stay and then after finally getting underway he has 2 other ships in the wrong lane causing him to swerve and make him more delayed. I'm guessing frustration set in and in that moment he was probably angry and refused to be the one to make room this time. Like someone frustrated in traffic refusing to let yet another person into your lane. I can almost guarantee he had no idea the other ship wouldn't yield and they certainly didn't know what the cargo of the other ship was or the added risks. Obviously he made a bad choice or several choices even but I alway remind myself hindsight is 20/20 but in the moment people generally don't think that far ahead. Especially if emotions are involved. It's a sad part of human nature that is why we have such rigorous training for ship captains nowadays. Training they didn't have back then.
i have herd of this sad story
He is saying the straight, no in basin. A bout hit other. Directly
Kabir, your audio is panned to the left for some reason.
They didn’t have enough room.
See, look at that map, it happened not strait, close to that sharp point a little out there.that's why Africville is a lot to us. see hump, that was the, and died.
1st on a very sad vid 😢
That picture is wrong where it happened.
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Not to say you are wrong, but he had already yielded to two ships. There may have been things going on we will never know.
True, but just because he may have yielded to 2 , doesn’t give him permission to not yield to another, or another, just like driving a truck.
However it is true there may be have been other factors not known.
Whoops
Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about the Johnstown flood? Like it’s so hard to find any decent videos about that anywhere despite the fact that it was the largest man-made disaster in the United States on record before 911.
You listening to a brit. you think know, I live here.
Equivalent to 2.9 megatons of TNT, scientists from Los Alamos used the data to model A-Bomb damage and determine the optimum detonation altitude
You're saying that, remember ww1. who knows.
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This talk is weird, it happened in the basin. 2 ships, no 3rd, hit and boom.
Ask us, we know more than brits.
10740 something. All zone dead. ad black, sorry. We hold events all the time.
All because of the maritime equivalent of reckless driving and road rage.
What he shown was location was so wrong. More in basin than strait. so he knows shit.
So the first the killer. to fast and don't care. hmmm germen help.
I like you, don't listen to english, the don't know.
like to you like 60 miles diameter. To yes, 120 km diameter blast, dead,
This person don't know what talking about. out of the 10000 people were black, that's why that zone is safe and remembered.only like 3000 was white. it hit far, as said 120, 60 miles is far.