The further we get from this event the more detailed and dramatic does its story become. … In the diary or smooth log of his voyage sent to Philip on August 21st, Medina Sidonia says simply that aboard the San Salvador some barrels of gunpowder blew up. … Everyone anywhere in the vicinity of the explosion seems to have been killed. Naturally, various conjectures were soon bruited in the fleet.

Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish A…, loc. 639