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The Stud That Stopped a Navy: How Thunderer's Gun Blew Apart a Revolution
The Stud That Stopped a Navy: How Thunderer's Gun Blew Apart a Revolution
A single metal stud torn from a Palliser shell, pulled from a ruined gun, froze a Royal Navy inquiry and left eleven men dead - but it only suggested a second shell had been present, it did not prove it. The ship survived two separate catastrophes, forty-five dead in one explosion and eleven in another, and yet no court-martial or individual charge ever followed; what really broke aboard HMS Thunderer, human error or machine failure?
In this episode, you will hear the sequence of events aboard HMS Thunderer from her…
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