On the bright, freezing morning of Dec. 6, 1917, a French captain steered his ship, the SS Mont Blanc, up the channel leading to the piers of Halifax, Canada’s major Atlantic port. Just after 8:30, as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Dec. 6, 1917, as coverage of the ship explosion in the Harbor of Halifax, Novia Scotia, ...

MONTREAL, Quebec -- An unconfirmed report was received here today from Halifax stating that a fully loaded munitions ship blew up in the harbor of Rockingham, a suburb of that city completely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Norwegian steamship Imo is beached on Dartmouth shore after the 1917 Halifax explosion. Its collision with the munitions ship ...

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has arrested a man that was allegedly stowed away on a container ship that reached Halifax on Monday. An CBSA official reported that officers boarded the ...

HALIFAX - One of two cruise ships scheduled to rendezvous at the site where the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic arrived in Halifax on Thursday as part of its journey. Passengers on the ship that ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Dec. 6, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 6, 1917, more than 1,700 people were killed ...