view of the USS Maine wreck A starboardside view of the USS Maine wreck The largely destroyed bow of the USS Maine The stern of the USS Maine following...
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village Maine, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, a town Maine (given name) Maine (surname) Maines (surname) SS Maine, a British steam ship USS Maine (1889), a...
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The Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine (Spanish: Monumento a las víctimas del Maine) was built in 1925 on the Malecón boulevard at the end of Línea...
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The USS Maine Mast Memorial is a memorial honoring those who died aboard the USS Maine (ACR-1) on February 15, 1898, after a mysterious explosion destroyed...
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the USS Maine—a calamitous event which precipitated the United States' involvement in the Spanish–American War (1898). How the Battleship Maine Was Destroyed...
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Maine Monument is a memorial marker in Davenport Park, Bangor, Maine. It commemorates veterans of the Spanish–American War, and the loss of the USS Maine...
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Maine. The USS Ossipee was present during the Alaska Purchase. Ossipee's keel was laid down in June 1861 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine;...
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construction of a prototype armored ram in 1889. Her keel was laid down by the Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine in July 1891. She was launched on 4 February...
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also: USS Arizona Memorial, USS Maine (1889)#Memorials, USS South Dakota (BB-57)#Post-war Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park – USS Little...
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Water, is an 1898 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. The sunken USS Maine lies at the bottom of Havana Harbor. Three divers in standard diving dress...
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USS Norman Scott (DD-690) was a United States Navy Fletcher-class destroyer named for Rear-Admiral Norman Scott (1889–1942), who was killed in the Naval...
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Kittery is a town in York County, Maine, United States, and the oldest incorporated town in Maine. Home to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on Seavey's Island...
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construction of battleships with USS Texas in 1892, although its first ship to be designated as such was USS Indiana. Texas and USS Maine, commissioned three years...
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William V. Pratt (category People from Belfast, Maine)
Academy. He was assigned to the gunboat USS Mayflower during the Spanish–American War and to the cruiser USS Newark afterwards. While in the latter, he...
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would get into port”. A similar design was followed by USS Maine and USS Texas, launched in 1889 and 1892 respectively. By the time they were completed...
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Rockland is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Maine, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 6,936. The city is a popular...
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Adolph Marix (section USS Maine)
Spanish–American War. The former executive officer of the battleship USS Maine, he served as recorder on the 1898 court of inquiry which investigated...
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she was already out of date. Nevertheless, she and the armored cruiser USS Maine were considered advancements in American naval design. Texas developed...
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Kansas Whiting, Maine Whiting, Missouri Whiting, New Jersey Whiting, Vermont Whiting, Wisconsin Whiting, Wyoming Whiting Bay (Maine), US Whiting Farms...
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with the decommissioned armed steamer USS Galena in tow, headed for the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, where Galena was to be fitted with new...
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USS Kearsarge, a Mohican-class sloop-of-war, is best known for her defeat of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France during...
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Thomas Brackett Reed (category Burials at Evergreen Cemetery (Portland, Maine))
from Maine who served as the 32nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1891 and 1895 to 1899. He represented Maine's 1st...
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Richard Bates (Medal of Honor) (category 1889 deaths)
on the USS De Soto. On that day, while the De Soto was off the coast of Eastport, Maine, he and two shipmates rescued two sailors from the USS Winooski...
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navy's first torpedo warfare doctrine. He then served in the battleship USS Maine before returning to the Newport Torpedo Station in October 1896. After...
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successive tours of duty on board the screw steamer USS Alert, the gunboat USS Ashuelot and the sloop-of-war USS Ticonderoga. He then was assigned to the Nautical...
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Edward Preble (category Military personnel from Portland, Maine)
named USS Preble Preble Hall, the museum at the United States Naval Academy Preble County in Ohio Fort Preble at Spring Point in South Portland, Maine Preble...
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USS Taylor (DD/DDE-468) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Rear Admiral William Rogers Taylor (1811–1889). She was laid...
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The history of the area comprising the U.S. state of Maine spans thousands of years, measured from the earliest human settlement, or approximately two...
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USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest commissioned...
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Dorothy Bush Koch (category People from Cape Elizabeth, Maine)
and holidays at the Bush compound, a seacoast estate in Kennebunkport, Maine. Bush was educated at Miss Porter's School, a private all-girl college-preparatory...
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