| Ship Name | Country | Ship Type | Date of Loss | Type of Loss | Location of Loss | Number of Survivors | Number Lost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RMS Titanic | Great Britain | Ocean liner | 1912 | Collision | Atlantic Ocean | 792 | 1500 |
| The RMS Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg with a great loss of life. | |||||||
| HMS Good Hope | Great Britain | Armoured cruiser | 1 November 1914 | Sunk in Battle | Chilean coast | 0 | 900 |
| She was sunk 1 November 1914 off the Chilean coast along with HMS Monmouth in the Battle of Coronel by the German armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The entire complement of 900 hands were lost. | |||||||
| SS Mont Blanc | France | Cargo ship | 6 December 1917 | Explosion | Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada | 0 | 1,950 including residents |
| SS Mont Blanc (Canada) On 6 December 1917 the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada was devastated by the huge detonation of the French cargo ship Mont Blanc, which was fully loaded with wartime explosives, after a collision with the Norwegian ship Imo. The collision happened in "The Narrows" section of the Halifax Harbour. It is estimated that 1,950 people were killed by debris, fires or building collaspe and over 9,000 people were injured.[1] This explosion is still ranked as the largest accidental explosion of conventional weapons to date.[2] | |||||||
References edit
- ^ CBC - Halifax Explosion 1917
- ^ Jay White, "Exploding Myths: The Halifax Explosion in Historical Context", Ground Zero: A Reassessment of the 1917 explosion in Halifax Alan Ruffman and Colin D. Howell editors, Nimbus Publishing (1994), p. 266