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    SS Noronic was a Canadian passenger ship that was destroyed by fire in Toronto Harbour in September 1949 with the loss of at least 118 lives.: 152 : 179 ...
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  • Castle fire was the worst disaster in North American waters since the SS Noronic burned and sank in Toronto Harbour with the loss of up to 139 lives in...
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  • PS General Slocum SS Normandie SS Noronic RMS Queen Elizabeth MS Prinsendam Herbert Saffir—a survivor of the Morro Castle Star Princess (2001) SS Yarmouth Castle...
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    for the disastrous September 1949 fire and destruction of its ship the SS Noronic in Toronto Harbour. The fire swept through the ship killing 118 to 139...
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    stringent regulations imposed for wooden cabin steamships following the Noronic disaster in 1949. Doomed by their wooden cabins and superstructure, these...
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    The venue served as a Saturday night destination for passengers of the SS Noronic that stopped at Sarnia on its trip around the Great Lakes from Toronto...
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    silhouette of the ship to this day. On 16 September 1949 a fire broke out on SS Noronic, then sailing the Great Lakes and docked at Toronto. Inadequate fire alarms...
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    destroyed the SS Noronic in 1949 at Pier 9. Historian Mike Filey described the vessel's wooden hull being damaged by the heat of the Noronic's blaze. Filey...
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    steamboating in the area. On 16 September 1949 a fire broke out on the SS Noronic, then sailing the Great Lakes and docked at Toronto. Inadequate fire alarms...
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    hospital following a fire on the cruise ship SS Noronic. Docked in the Toronto harbour, the disaster on the Noronic killed 118 people. From the 1940s to the...
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  • Aircrash/Bombing near Sault-au-Cochon, Quebec Central Canada 23 1949 September 17 SS Noronic fire Fire/shipwreck Toronto, Ontario Central Canada 118+ 1950 1950 Red...
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    Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal. September 17 Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour, with the loss of over 118 lives. Warner Bros...
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  • Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union. 1949 – The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives. 1961 – The world's...
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    lives lost in the fire that destroyed the Great Lakes luxury cruise liner SS Noronic on September 17, 1949, a memorial was erected by the Government of Ontario...
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    until the end of the war. The SS Manitoba was retired in 1950, following the SS Noronic disaster. The SS Keewatin and SS Assiniboia continued operating...
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  • Springhill mining disaster Explosion Springhill, Nova Scotia 118 1949 SS Noronic Shipwreck Toronto, Ontario 118 1963 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831...
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    Worldpress Blog. 26 March 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2017. Shipwrecks - SS Milwaukee "Shipwrecks". Retrieved 4 April 2011. "Chequamegon". Historical...
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  • him. Belyea was chair of the parks committee during the SS Noronic disaster of 1949. The Noronic was a passenger ship that docked for the night at Pier...
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    associated with Toronto Harbour include: Canada portal Keating Channel SS Noronic Toronto waterway system "Toronto Harbour". rncan.gc.ca. Natural Resources...
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    building was used as a temporary morgue the day after a fire destroyed the SS Noronic in 1949. It houses the Toronto Event Centre. The Music Building (1907)...
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    SS Europa, later SS Liberté IMO 5607332, was a German ocean liner built for the Norddeutsche Lloyd line (NDL) to work the transatlantic sea route. Launched...
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  • Hurricane Hazel, 1960 Great Chilean tsunami 2001 Out of Control: 1949 SS Noronic fire, 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire 2001 Human Error: 1917 Halifax Explosion...
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    from operations. 1949 – While docked at Pier 9, the luxury cruise ship SS Noronic catches fire and burns, killing over 118 people 1954 – Hurricane Hazel...
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    was bought out by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company in 1948. The SS Noronic fire in Toronto forced the Federal Maritime Department to change marine...
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    Shipbuilding. She was retired in late 1949, a few months after her sister ship, Noronic, had a catastrophic fire, at her moorings, in Toronto, Ontario, killing...
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    1945. However, unlike the catastrophic fire that struck her sister ship, Noronic, in 1949, where 119 passengers died, all of Hamonic's passengers and crew...
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  • The SS Noronic at Prescott around 1939....
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  • as a child. The Red Cross established a register of survivors of the SS Noronic disaster in 1949. Survivors of the Hurricane Katrina disaster also registered...
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  • singer and songwriter, in Jakarta, Indonesia (d. 2007) The passenger ship SS Noronic was destroyed in a fire at Toronto Harbour with the loss of at least 118...
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    of hydro in Ontario to 60 cycles from 25 cycles begins. September 17 SS Noronic burns at the Toronto Harbour resulting in 118 fatalities. 1951 August...
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