![]() ![]() 2 by the force of the blast, but at once returned and picked up R.E. ![]() “At the time of the explosion, Trinidad was driven out of fireroom No. Trinidad’s actions during the disaster as a fireman second class were reported by the Navy’s magazine, Our Navy, in its May 1915 issue, republished by the museum. ![]() At the end of the trial, an obstructed tube of one of the ship’s boilers gave way, creating a chain reaction of explosions that killed nine men and injured several others, according to the National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington, Va. 21, 1915, while on patrol in the Gulf of California, the armored cruiser conducted a four-hour, full-speed and endurance trial.
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