Talk:Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci

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sources: http://www.ussmissouri.com/Battleship-Italian.htm and http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/battleships/ital_dr.htm

Zeimusu | (Talk page) 04:55, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Cause of loss

Many Navies of that era lost one or more ships due to magazine explosions when not being fired at. Almost certainly this was due to instability of the propellant used in the shells (cordite or equivalent)which could spontaneously decomplose in a run-away reaction. Many Navies tended to go for a less technical diagnosis of sabotage, but they were almost certainly wrong (remember the Maine ?)