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A [Chat] in which multiple Lusitania theories are mused upon
RMS Oceanic
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On Friday 7th of May 1915, at 2:10pm...
RMS Lusitania was struck by a torpedo launched from German Submarine U20. Seconds later, a second more powerful explosion rocked the ship, sealing her fate to sink within 18 minutes and with the loss of nearly 1200 people. While the inquiry at the time concluded U20 fired a second torpedo because propaganda, that's been discounted.
The cause of the second explosion is still officially unknown and dangit it's annoying me. There are three main theories.
- The classic: Lusitania was illegally carrying high explosive munitions for the war effort. German sources at the time liked this one, as it ex-post-facto justified her as a valid war target. There are some dodgy stuff around the manifest declaring her legal carrying of bullets and shrapnel after she left New York and the inquiry having a big secret section that hasn't been uncovered to this day. But the reckoning is the munitions she might have been carrying would have done far more damage, and the ship looked relatively fine above the waterline until she was all under the waterline and slammed into the sea.
- Cold water + Hot boilers = Steam explosion. This feels plausible, especially with the quick loss of steam pressure and electricity (trapping people in her elevators, good luck sleeping tonight) but some discount it because people around the boilers survived.
- Coal dust. Championed by Robert "I found the Titanic" Ballard, empty coal bunkers near the end of a voyage, dust kicked into the air by the torpedo, find a spark, kaboom. But the second explosion took a few seconds and wouldn't the water have smothered the dust?
I keep reading different sources where it was "oh she definitely carried the boom booms" or "no she didn't that's dumb" and British secretiveness makes that possible but then other sources will be about the boilers and nobody agrees on the truth and it's frustrating. Vote me for Prime Minister and I promise to completely declassify everything about Lusitania just for my own peace of mind.
So what do you think? Who's right and who's wrong?
RMS Lusitania was struck by a torpedo launched from German Submarine U20. Seconds later, a second more powerful explosion rocked the ship, sealing her fate to sink within 18 minutes and with the loss of nearly 1200 people. While the inquiry at the time concluded U20 fired a second torpedo because propaganda, that's been discounted.
The cause of the second explosion is still officially unknown and dangit it's annoying me. There are three main theories.
- The classic: Lusitania was illegally carrying high explosive munitions for the war effort. German sources at the time liked this one, as it ex-post-facto justified her as a valid war target. There are some dodgy stuff around the manifest declaring her legal carrying of bullets and shrapnel after she left New York and the inquiry having a big secret section that hasn't been uncovered to this day. But the reckoning is the munitions she might have been carrying would have done far more damage, and the ship looked relatively fine above the waterline until she was all under the waterline and slammed into the sea.
- Cold water + Hot boilers = Steam explosion. This feels plausible, especially with the quick loss of steam pressure and electricity (trapping people in her elevators, good luck sleeping tonight) but some discount it because people around the boilers survived.
- Coal dust. Championed by Robert "I found the Titanic" Ballard, empty coal bunkers near the end of a voyage, dust kicked into the air by the torpedo, find a spark, kaboom. But the second explosion took a few seconds and wouldn't the water have smothered the dust?
I keep reading different sources where it was "oh she definitely carried the boom booms" or "no she didn't that's dumb" and British secretiveness makes that possible but then other sources will be about the boilers and nobody agrees on the truth and it's frustrating. Vote me for Prime Minister and I promise to completely declassify everything about Lusitania just for my own peace of mind.
So what do you think? Who's right and who's wrong?
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