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Sailor Steve · 08-20-13, 02:12 PM

The fact is that there is not enough left of the magazine area to ascertain exactly what happened, so everything is guesswork. The "black powder" theory was proposed in a 1944 BuShips report. The explosion of the shell itself (it wasn't a 'bomb' in the proper sense) could just as easily have ignited the powder in the main magazine.

I only questioned your summation this way because you stated it so emphatically, as though it were a proven fact, when in fact it's not a fact at all.

08-20-13, 02:12 PM	#61
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	The fact is that there is not enough left of the magazine area to ascertain exactly what happened, so everything is guesswork. The "black powder" theory was proposed in a 1944 BuShips report. The explosion of the shell itself (it wasn't a 'bomb' in the proper sense) could just as easily have ignited the powder in the main magazine. I only questioned your summation this way because you stated it so emphatically, as though it were a proven fact, when in fact it's not a fact at all. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo