Remember The Maine

A short documentary I made for school on the USS Maine

Category:

Education

Tags:

• USS
• Maine
• Spanish-American
• War
• Selena
• Perrin
• Social
• Studies
• Cuba

[stevenyou]

omg hehe the maine blew up due to an on board malfunction. spain was wrongfully accused of destroying the ship so that the us could acquire cuba and the philipines while we'er at it...

[TheIncredibleSpazz]

yeah, thats what i thought.

[Sirkilla120]

.., fucking idiot the maine was sunk by the us so we could get into the fight sound familar?

[TheIncredibleSpazz]

this was done FOR SCHOOL. you have to use the info that THE SCHOOL approves.

[vivaespanha]

@vv55sst Pics of the remains were taken, experts (including US Navy) analised the pics recently, even replicated parts of the ship to have ´em tested, and the results are in a 2002 History Channel documentary. It was an inside explosion. Probably accident due to negligent maintenance. (Or a typical C.I.A.-alike job... that we will never know). No doubt it was not any act of war from Spain. The US should recognize it officially, and apologize to Spain, a friend country.

[TheDarkSideWTMY1280]

Viva Cuba Española Americans come to wars when other countries are allready winning the war! plus USA Blow there own Ship!

[vv55sst]

That "Documentary" was a rigged and pre-judged show. They came to the conclusion as to how they wanted it to come out BEFORE the show as even filmed and did not include a vast amount of contradictory evidence. There are arguments both ways, but it is inaccurate to say the matter is settled as a scientific fact.

[FalconKPD]

The ship exploded due to a coal fire, a common thing of the time. The US thought it was a Spanish mine (Which would make sense based on the tensions between the US and Spain) . At the time, they thought that's what happened and war broke out. Get over it, conspiracy theorists.

[pjboom]

Spain gave weapons, money and kept the british stucked in the south so you could gain your independence, then you backsatbbed us.

[dadecountyhustler305]

None of your dumbasses has any proof, but just speculation. Spain would keep mines in the harbor to protect from foreign ships... As did many European nations did back then...

[ejdiii333]

@TheWhiteStallion333 : Well, like I mentioned, it was an investigation by Admiral Rickover in the the 1960s.....stress the 1960s...free love, the sexual revolution.... so yeah, in 1960s lingo it could be a "sexplosion!" ....haha...tahnks for the reply.

[TheWhiteStallion333]

@ejdiii333

lol "sexplosion" nice typo

[vv55sst]

@stevenyou - That is the current popular theory. And Its quite possible. The offical investigation (done after the war) blamed a mine (external cause). However, having looked at the evidence on both sides, I can't reach a definitive conclusion. I think an internal explosion is the more likely of the possible casues, but until there's a time machine to go back and look, they are both just theories.