Roosevelt's Navy by James Tertius De Kay

Author:James Tertius De Kay
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Pegasus Books

Over half a century later, in 1973, British investigative reporter Colin Simpson discovered that the Germans had been right. He established that nearly the whole of the Lusitania’s cargo was contraband and that a false manifest had been prepared to conceal the fact. Simpson later dived on the wreck and brought up some of the 10½ tons of explosives. The 1,250 cases of shrapnel were falsely franked “non explosive in bulk.” Some 3,813 40-pound packages assigned to the Naval Experimental Establishment at Shoeburyness and labeled “cheese” were actually pyroxylin, a nitrocellulose explosive highly susceptible to seawater, and were almost certainly the cause of the second explosion.

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