museum. USS Maine Monument in New York City USS Maine Monument, Columbus Circle, NYC Columbia Triumphant Memorial plaque by Charles Keck, USS Maine Memorial...
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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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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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in 1889, whose sinking contributed to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War Maine-class battleship, a battleship class of the U.S. Navy USS Maine (BB-10)...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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was an American merchant steamship that aided in rescuing the crew of USS Maine when it exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, in 1898. Built at John...
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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 and county seat of Knox County, Maine, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 6,936. The city is a popular tourist...
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USS Galena was a wooden armed steamer in commission in the United States Navy from 1880 to 1890. She had an active career in which she operated in the...
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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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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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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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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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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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Brooklyn, Western Queens County, and Staten Island into New York City 1898 – USS Maine explodes in Havana, Cuba harbor, precipitating the Spanish–American War...
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audaces fortuna iuvat. Also the motto of the Portuguese Army Commandos and the USS Montpelier in the latter form. audere est facere to dare is to do Motto of...
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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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command of USS Denver on April 20, 1907, and transferred his command to USS Maine (BB-10) on July 31, 1908. Detached from that command when the Maine was decommissioned...
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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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