Mystery Of The Mary Celeste

Erik Larson’s argument is correct since he has so much evidence in the novel that explains the forces and reasons of the ship’s sinking and strongly analyzes his claims and directs quotes to support them. For example, “Perfectly safe; safer than the trolley cars in New York City..” “We just laughed it off, and said they would never get us, we were too quick, too speedy.”

there are many theories of what caused the disaster and the known theories are: the gas leak theory, the lightening theory, the diesel theory, the flammable theory, and the sabotage theory. First the lightning theory suggest by F.W von Meister that an spark, also know as elmo's fire, set off an fire when the crew began valve the gas. The second was the gas leak theory when the airship was turned too sharply causing the metal frame to over stress the ship's frame causing a wire to snap and slash open a one of the gas cells. The third theory is the flammable theory when the scientist think that the fabric of the ship is flammable because of the water proofing was highly reactive, because it contains iron oxide and aluminum. Lastly the sabotage theory suggested by Hugo Eckene that some one have sabotage the ship and the people on the ship began to be suspected such as: Captain Max Pruss, Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, also including other people but the luck of evidence of sabotage they were dismiss and was no further

The British luxury passenger ship, The Titanic, set sail on April 10, 1912, en route to New York City from Southampton (Lord ch 1). During her maiden voyage, midnight of April 15, 1912, she began to sink (ch 1). The Titanic had a collision with an iceberg that was around 100 feet tall (“Titanic: 40 Fascinating Facts” 3). Regardless to how greatly manufactured the Titanic was, and with beliefs that she was unsinkable, the miscalculation of human error proves that every possible outcome cannot be prevented, disasters can still occur regardless of careful planning.

Submarine divers were sent to Havana to find out the cause of this tragic event. The divers soon found 260 men dead from the explosion. Dynomite experts learned that the explosion was no accident. This was an intentional doing. There was some overheard conversation that there was a plot to blow up the ship. The United States naval forces discovered that there was a mine in the harbor that caused the explosion.

the sailors aboard the ships were dead, and those who were still alive were gravely ill. They were

February 15th, 1898, the USS Maine was hit with a mine as it sat in the Havana Harbor. There is large speculation to whether that is the truth or not. Over the years it is still a topic of debate as of what caused the explosion. Some believe that the Spaniards did it, others believe it was a clumsy mistake of misplaced ammo, others believe it was a spontaneous coal fire that caught a box of ammunition on fire. No matter the cause, the loss of the ship and 260 of her crew was devastating to America at the time and led to strong feelings of dislike towards the Spaniards, leading to the Spanish-American war of 1898. The theories behind the explosion of the USS Maine is mainly focused around two ideas, there are many angles that can be viewed for the cause of this disaster and its fueling of the war that will be examined in this paper.

The Sulphur Queen was a 523-foot tanker that was originally intended to carry oil, but was converted to carry sulphur. On Feb. 3, 1963, the ship sent a radio report that placed it 230 miles southeast of New Orleans, La., according to a report by Time Magazine. Then nothing. There was no SOS and no warning of trouble. The ship simply disappeared.Two weeks later, pieces of a raft, a life vest and a broken oar washed up on Florida beaches. An investigation launched by the Coast Guard shortly after the disappearance concluded that the vessel was nowhere near seaworthy and likely caught fire at sea. Such a conclusion was not far-fetched. According to the article, "once, the Queen actually sailed into a New Jersey port with fires smoldering, unloaded her cargo, and sailed off again -- still burning."

After the explosion, the yellow press proclaimed that “The Maine was destroyed by treachery”. Although there is no evidence to support their assertion, but this assume give a possible explanation of the explosion, and successfully make a lot of people believed in it. Not only one press, but a lot of yellow press start making rumours about this explosion and they are announcing “The warship Maine was split in two by an enemy’s secret infernal machine”. These announcement make people think that the Spain government is behind this thing.

At 9:40 pm on February 15 1898 a massive explosion rocked the Maine, soon after there was a second one. The Maine sunk almost immediately. Unfortunately the explosions happened in the front of the ship close to the living quarters of the men. Out of the 354 men on board 266 died from the blasts. Many others were injured terribly.

The boilers had already not been in good shape plus the pressure of about 2 thousand more people that there were supposed to be boarded on that boat. The boat at to stop a couple times to fix the boilers and almost every stop they pick up more people.The Sultana was made for 376 people, at the times about 2,300 people were boarded on that boat. Before the explosion they had to stop 2 to 3 times just to fix the boiler and the last time they ¨fixed¨ the boiler the job wasn't fully done. Between the weight and the boiler none of it added up correctly. The boiler was already damaged and 2,000 extra people they should have known it was going to end good. Although they didn't really have anyway warning besides the having to fix the boiler multiple times and they knew

A major factor in why the shipmates died was the ship’s conditions, the lack of

6. See McMorrow, An Internal Explosion? And Spontaneous Combustion, to learn more the evidence supporting internal explosion. 7. See “Sinking of the Maine,” by New World Encyclopedia, 1976 Rickover investigation to learn more about the investigation that supports the internal explosion theory.

I did some research about the explosion, and found the answer to why it happened. This demonstration is called the “whoosh bottle.” It is where you place a low-boiling alcohol such as methanol, ethanol, or isopropanol into a bottle, coat the entire bottle with the alcohol, and then use fire to create an combustion reaction

The Philadelphia Experiment is one of the U.S’s greatest unsolved mysteries. In 1943, the USS Eldridge was believed to have become invisible. After this alleged experiment occurred, many of the crew aboard the ship disappeared never to be heard from again. Also with the disappearances, many coincidences followed the mystery such as the occurrence of Morris K. Jessup’s death. The Philadelphia Experiment is still unsolved today because even though the Navy claims it has never occurred, this would not be the first time the Navy and U.S Government has tried to cover an event such as this up.

Nestled in the heart of Halifax lies the legendary harbour. The day is December 6th, 1817. It seems as if it is a normal day in Halifax. The two ships that caused the explosion were the ‘Imo’ and the ‘Mont Blanc’. The Mont Blanc was a French general cargo and a munitions ship owned by Cie Generale Transatlantique. The ship was considered very old yet had a