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Re: Lusitania
Posted by: john ()
Date: October 30, 2003 06:41PM

<HTML>Author : john
Date : 30/10/03
The first question, exploding boiler? the fact that the majority of the boiler room crew survived & gave their accounts makes that theory unlikely, where as the fact the torpedo struck the starboard side directly into one of the large empty coal bunkers that ran along both SIDES of the ship and as stated would at this time be full of combustible coal dust (The German cruiser Karlsruhe i believe was lost to the same cause)seems the most probable cause.
The second question, German U-boat commander's seemed to count all ships excluding hospital & properly identifed neutrals (in most cases)as fair game in alloted war zones (before being given a free hand later in the war), the bigger the better for their tonnage scores, i believe lemp in U-30 WW11 did the same thing.</HTML>

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Lusitania Periscope Pete 10/26/2003 08:41PM
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Re: Lusitania Brian 10/28/2003 12:06AM
Re: Lusitania phil cullen 10/28/2003 07:36AM
Re: Lusitania Ron 10/29/2003 04:09PM
Re: Lusitania john 10/30/2003 06:41PM


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