[null and void]

"I have never heard of any navy vessel explode by itself so far,

Remember the Maine?

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

The “Maine” explosion was proved to be an internal explosion.In 1976, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover published his book, How the Battleship Maine Was Destroyed. He concluded (and his experts)experts concluded that the damage caused to the ship was inconsistent with the external explosion of a mine. This explosion was caused by something outside: a torpedo or

[Ezekiel]

A collision with an outside object could easily have caused an explosion.

Rememebr Faux Pas.