Harry Piers: Museum Maker

Notes from Piers Accession Book: Wooden (mahogany, painted dark gray) Name-boards of one of the Lifeboats of the French munition Steamship "Mont Blanc" of Rouen, which exploded at Pier 6, Richmond, Halifax, N.S., at 9:06 a.m. of 6th December, 1917, after collision with Belgian Relief Steamship "Imo," and destroyed much of the town and very many lives. (continued...)

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Date Accessioned: 4 December 1918

Reference: Harry Piers number 4677  Nova Scotia Museum Marine History Collection, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic