Ford Needham Memorial Park by kenmo

Photography • Historical • posted on Jun 08, 2015

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Description

A memorial to the Halifax Explosion which occurred on December 6th, 1917 when the French ammunition ship the "Mont-Blanc" collided with the Norwegian freighter "SS Imo" which was the largest non-nuclear man made explosion. Leveling the community of Richmond and killing over 1900 Halifax residents.The shock wave shattered windows at least 50 miles away.

Comments (14)

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Cyve

6:03PM | Mon, 08 June 2015

Fantastic place and very great shot my friend !

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giulband

6:20PM | Mon, 08 June 2015

Wonderful photo !!!

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eekdog

7:00PM | Mon, 08 June 2015

don't recall that in my history lessons in school. superb capture of the memorial my friend..

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iborg64

6:53AM | Tue, 09 June 2015

superb photo a great looking shot

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ontar1

7:40AM | Tue, 09 June 2015

Beautiful view!

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sossy

8:28AM | Tue, 09 June 2015

interesting info and special memorial with all the bells! the capture is wonderful color saturated! ;o)

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jif3d

12:20PM | Tue, 09 June 2015

Wow, 1900 dead...one hell of an explosion ! Great looking monument and capture, but can't get over that many people and lives this tragic must have affected. ~Cheers~

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