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=Halifax explosion by:Josh Rozee=

15 guestions about the halifax explosion
1.What year did it hapen? 2.What time did the first explosion happen? 3.How did it happen? 4.Was there ships involved? 5.Was there more then one ship envolved? 6.What were the ships names? 7.What were the captains names? 8.How many people died? 9.How much damage was done by the explosion? 10.How many people were injured? 11.What were the ships carring ? 12.Where were the ships going? 13.where the ships carring war supplies? 14.Did the explosion happen in the harbour? 15.How much money was recived as donations to help with the damages?

=anwsers= 1.It happend on the morning of december 6,1917. 2.The first explosion happend at 9:05am. 3.The ss mont-blanc and the ss lmo bumped into each other, 10 minutes later the ss mont-blanc was on fire and exploded. 4.Yes there were two ships envolved. 5.Yes there wwere two ships involved the ss mont-blanc and the ss lmo. 6.One ships name was the ss mont-blanc a french cargo ship and the second one was the ss lmo a norwegian vessel. 7.The captain for the ss mont-blancwas captain aimele medec and the captain for thr ss lmo was captain haakon from. 8.Approximately 2000 people were killed. 9.1600 buildings were destroyed,12,000 homes were damaged, 6000 people were left homeless,25,000 people had inadequate housing. 10.It is estimated that 9000 people were injured. 11.The ss mont-blanc was fully loaded with wartime explosives and the ss lom was empty at the time. 12.The sslom was heading to new nork to pick up relief supples while the ss mont-blanc was to carry the highly explosive cargo overseas to bordeaut. 13.Only the ss mont-blanc was carring war supplies the ss lmo was empty. 14.No it happend in the narrows,a strait connecting the upper halifax harbour to bedford basin. 15.They recived over 2.2 million dollars in aid from other countries.