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    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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  • name USS Maine, named for the 23rd state: USS Maine (ACR-1), was a battleship whose 1898 sinking precipitated the Spanish–American War. USS Maine (BB-10)...
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    USS Maine (SSBN-741) is a United States Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine in commission since 1995. She is the fourth U.S. Navy ship authorized...
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    The first two ships ordered to the 33-knot improved South Dakota design—USS Iowa and New Jersey—were ordered under the 1939 fiscal year. The passage...
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    actions of the Spanish Army were destroyed. Before the sinking of the USS Maine, one American media correspondent stationed in Cuba was quoted as saying...
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    Gettysburg. Four U.S. Navy ships have been named USS Maine, most famously the armored cruiser USS Maine (ACR-1), whose sinking by an explosion on February...
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    surviving the catastrophic explosions of two U.S. Navy ships: USS Maine in 1898, and USS Bennington in 1905. Turpin was born on August 20, 1876, in Long...
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    USS Maine (BB-10), the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the...
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    December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the...
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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 (ACR-1)...
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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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    the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 was the immediate cause of the Spanish–American War. In January 1898 the USS Maine, the largest vessel...
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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 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 National Monument is an outdoor monument located at the Merchants' Gate entrance to Central Park, at Columbus Circle, in Manhattan, New...
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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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  • broken. On 15 February 1898, more than 5 tons of gunpowder exploded in the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor, Cuba, killing 266 on board. Spanish investigations...
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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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    Crespo Between 1902 and 1921 as far as the Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine Between 1948 and 1952 to the mouth of the Almendares River The Malecón...
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    oceanographer and hydrographer. He is best remembered as the captain of USS Maine, which exploded in Havana Harbor, Cuba, in 1898 and set off the events...
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    program, and was assigned to the Ohio-class submarine USS Maine. While serving on the USS Maine, Barron completed three patrols as a division officer...
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  • False flag allegations USS Maine (1898) RMS Lusitania (1915) Reichstag fire (1933) Pearl Harbor (1941) USS Liberty (1967) Lufthansa Flight 615 (1972)...
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    Tomb of the Unknowns stands the USS Maine Mast Memorial, which commemorates the 266 men who died aboard the USS Maine. The memorial is built around a...
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    D5 missile since design completion in 1989, the most recent being from USS Maine (SSBN-741) in February 2020. There have been fewer than 10 test flights...
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  • False flag allegations USS Maine (1898) RMS Lusitania (1915) Reichstag fire (1933) Pearl Harbor (1941) USS Liberty (1967) Lufthansa Flight 615 (1972)...
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  • living in Havana. In response, the battleship USS Maine was sent to Havana. On 15 February 1898, the Maine was destroyed by an explosion, killing 268 crewmembers...
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    Destruction of USS Maine". Naval History and Heritage Command. Archived from the original on December 18, 2020. Retrieved September 8, 2019. "Uss Maine". Archived...
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    novels, such as USS Maine (SSBN-741) in The Sum of All Fears (1991). The fictional USS Montana is featured in the 1989 film The Abyss. USS Alabama is the...
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  • Slavery Ten Years' War Little War Cuban War of Independence Sinking of USS Maine Spanish–American War Platt Amendment World War I Republic 1932 hurricane...
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    display are a screw from the battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57), a 6-inch gun salvaged from the battleship USS Maine, a titanium pressure sphere from the...
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