SS NORONIC

Aloha again my Great Lakes ship enthusiasts!! 🚢 ⚓️🌊😎 Join me today as we go over the horrible and deadly ship fire of the ss noronic at pier 9 on lake ontario.
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Ulf söderberg
Chopin: Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2
Performance of Vadim Chaimovich
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"682 Aboard Asleep When Disaster Hits Liner at Toronto Pier". The Ottawa Journal. September 17, 1949. p. 1. Retrieved December 31, 2015 - via Newspapers.com.
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Susan McLennan. "The Noronic Fire - Toronto's Disaster with the Greatest Loss of Life". Reimagine. Retrieved March 20, 2019. Medical examiners came in from other parts of Canada and from the US to help with the difficult task of identification. For the first time, dental records were used to identify the dead. The ID process went on for almost a year, as some of the victims were no more than piles of ash and jewelry.
"Last Surviving First Responder to Toronto's Greatest Disaster Marks the 65th Anniversary of the Noronic Fire". Marketwired. Toronto. September 16, 2014. Archived from the original on July 7, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2021. The disaster gave birth to the use of dental records being used to identify the dead. Medical examiners came in from other parts of Canada and the US to help ID the victims.
Adam Bunch (January 26, 2016). "Toronto's most deadly disaster: the nightmare on the SS Noronic". Spacing magazine. Retrieved March 20, 2019. Even then, many of the bodies were burnt so badly they were unrecognizable. Entirely new techniques of x-ray identification had to be developed. It was one of the very first times that dental records were ever used forensically. Eventually, the death toll was pegged at 119 lives.
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Mike Filey (July 23, 2016). "Meet the 'Iron Guppy': The past and future of Toronto's waterfront tugs and fireboats". Toronto Sun. Archived from the original on March 19, 2019. Retrieved March 29, 2017. An interesting feature of the "Charles A. Reed" was the fact it was a wooden craft and suffered damage when it was used to help fight the SS Noronic waterfront disaster in September, 1949. The unsuitability of the "ancient" fireboat was used by several city councilors as they pursued the acquisition of a new fireboat.

[@jenniferbrewer5370]

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[@julieg1270]

Thank you for another great video, even though I was choking down my tears. All the ships that went down on the lakes or like this ship where there was great loss of life deserve to be remembered, and thank you for taking the time to give us this 😊

[@CannyF]

Thank you for this great presentation of this sad moment in history. You do a great job and I like listening to you. Keep up with your wonderful work and I’m looking forward for the next video!

[@robertnichols2283]

Just one letter away from Moronic

[@davidcustard9311]

You are a very good story teller. A very sad story.

[@PatriciaValliere-vg8ou]

Enjoyed your presentation.

[@MrThisisrich]

My father was working for the Toronto life saving and police patrol when this happened. He had just come off watch duty and the person who replaced him sounded the alarm as the glow from the fire could be seen and was growing. My father said the erriest thing was the day after where one door on the ship was open and creaking and groaning as it sweyed in the wind.

[@SONGSOFTHEGREATLAKES3122]

Oh wow! I can't imagine how he felt and seeing that devastation afterwards, I hope this video sheds just a tiny light on this story, so it won't be forgotten and for the victims and their families and friends. I am very sad to hear this story.

[@markstott6689]

It's an incredibly sad story. I wonder how much complacency played a part? Unfortunately, the ship design was severely lacking. The lack of multiple points of egress was moronic in the extreme. I wouldn't want to board a ship built this way, but as you said, those were different times.
It makes me think back to travelling on the Prinz Hamlet from Harwich to Hamburg and a week later in reverse. That ship also boarded from a lower deck. I guess as a 15 year old in 1983, I didn't worry about it. Although, I do remember thinking that I'd expected to board much higher up the ships side. Probably because the only other ship that I had ever been on before was HMS Leander as a 10 year old with cub scouts. That was far smaller in hindsight. 😢❤😢

[@janicesullivan8942]

Similar to the tragedy of The Morro Castle, her fire started in a closet/locker that needed a key, no adequate fire equipment, no organized escape plan.

[@artmccartan4911]

Horrific tragedy and who would have thought the lemon oil used to beautify and preserve the wood would create a firestorm. Obviously only having to Escape Routes on the bottom deck contributed as well. First I've heard of this tragedy. I look forward to hearing the next informative story.

[@mellissadalby1402]

I had never before heard this story.

[@Play_fare]

Really enjoyed your video presentation of a horrible tragedy. A small pronunciation correction: “quay” is pronounced “key”. This disaster occurred before the St. Lawrence Seaway was built, so a ship of this length likely couldn’t travel further than Prescott at that time owing to the size limits of the old canals between Prescott and Montreal.

[@SONGSOFTHEGREATLAKES3122]

@Play_fare thank you I do try my best at pronouncing last names and places haha 😄

[@CrisisGuildWOW]

Noronic? Should have been named Mornonic. Such incompetence from the crew.

[@HistoricGentleman]

Quay= is pronounced Key

[@danielthoman7324]

While you are talking about what happened show pictures of the ship instead of pictures of the lakeshore.

[@SONGSOFTHEGREATLAKES3122]

@danielthoman7324 there's only so many ship pictures I can show before I run out and they start repeating. I also leave some of it to your imagination as I'm reading which I think is fun.

[@CWARZ23]

Haven't heard this story.👍👍👍 Great job!