USS Maine explosion
In 1898 the US ship, The USS Maine, mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor, Cuba. Some people say it was a mine planted by a unknown source to try to explode the USS Maine, others think it was McKinley making a set up for a reason to declare war on Cuba. But personally I think it was an accidental explosion cause by a fault in the ship.
While looking over evidence of the explosion I saw places where the metal was bent out, suggesting the explosion came from the inside, like an accidental fire caused by the set up of the ship. The fuel in the USS maine was kept in the middle of the ship right next to the ammunition, with one small mistake the whole ship could go up in flames with a huge explosion, sinking the ship. The ship looks like the most damage occurred in the center of the ship, supporting the idea that it was an accident from the inside. The other evidence that leads me to believe that it was accidental is the way the media in America portrayed the people living in Cuba. They had pictures of weak, sick, very skinny and poorly clothed people of all ages. To me that suggested that we wanted people to help and feel sorry for the people of Cuba, not to go to war with them. The images make me think that we think they aren’t able to defend themselves if we did end up going to war with them. Also, there was no evidence that shows the shell of the ship curling inward from the explosion, which means that unless it was missed in the images, the explosion came from the inside of the ship. When we did a simulation of the way the shell of the ship would curve in the impact of a projectile by throwing a ball of tin foil threw a sheet of tin foil and looking at the entrance point of the foil ball. When comparing the ships pictures to the recorded observations from the tin foil simulation there isn’t anything in the pictures showing any similarities. The images just look like the metal of the ship is melted from fire.
As you can see from all the evidence that I have
While looking over evidence of the explosion I saw places where the metal was bent out, suggesting the explosion came from the inside, like an accidental fire caused by the set up of the ship. The fuel in the USS maine was kept in the middle of the ship right next to the ammunition, with one small mistake the whole ship could go up in flames with a huge explosion, sinking the ship. The ship looks like the most damage occurred in the center of the ship, supporting the idea that it was an accident from the inside. The other evidence that leads me to believe that it was accidental is the way the media in America portrayed the people living in Cuba. They had pictures of weak, sick, very skinny and poorly clothed people of all ages. To me that suggested that we wanted people to help and feel sorry for the people of Cuba, not to go to war with them. The images make me think that we think they aren’t able to defend themselves if we did end up going to war with them. Also, there was no evidence that shows the shell of the ship curling inward from the explosion, which means that unless it was missed in the images, the explosion came from the inside of the ship. When we did a simulation of the way the shell of the ship would curve in the impact of a projectile by throwing a ball of tin foil threw a sheet of tin foil and looking at the entrance point of the foil ball. When comparing the ships pictures to the recorded observations from the tin foil simulation there isn’t anything in the pictures showing any similarities. The images just look like the metal of the ship is melted from fire.
As you can see from all the evidence that I have