"The Iéna and Liberté Disasters, 1907 and 1911" Topic
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| Tango01 | 05 May 2018 12:05 p.m. PST |
"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries all major navies, other than the German, lost large ships through magazine explosions of unstable ammunition. The first of such tragedies was in the US Navy, when the battleship USS Maine blew up in the harbour of Havana, Cuba, in January 1898. The explosion was initially blamed on sabotage by Spanish forces, and was a factor in precipitating the Spanish-American War of the same year (the recruiting slogan being "Remember the Maine!") but it was only long afterwards when the cause was finally attributed to a magazine explosion…"
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| charared | 05 May 2018 2:36 p.m. PST |
Nice find (again!). Thanks Armand! |
| Tango01 | 06 May 2018 3:20 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
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