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    Daniel E. & Koehler, R. B. (2006). "Question 20/04: Artifacts from USS Maine (ACR-1)". Warship International. XLIII (2): 131–33. ISSN 0043-0374. Friedman...
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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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    September 1, 1912 and dedicated on May 30, 1913 to the men killed aboard USS Maine (ACR-1) when the ship exploded in Havana harbor. In 1913, a USS Maine Monument...
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    City on November 4, 1896. He was a Mess Attendant on the battleship USS Maine (ACR-1) when it exploded in Havana Harbor, Cuba under mysterious circumstances...
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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), a...
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    Driggs-Schroeder guns included USS Texas (1892), USS Maine (ACR-1), USS Olympia (C-6), USS New York (ACR-2), and USS Brooklyn (ACR-3). Olympia is preserved...
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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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    USS New York (ACR-2/CA-2) was the second United States Navy armored cruiser so designated; the first was the ill-fated Maine, which was soon redesignated...
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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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    grey and black tabby, was a ship's cat of the US Navy, aboard the USS Maine (ACR-1) in 1898. When the ship was sunk in Havana Harbor on 15 February 1898...
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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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    separately in each ship type list. CA-1, CA-6 and CA-10 were never used, as ACR-1 Maine, ACR-6 California/San Diego and ACR-10 Tennessee/Memphis were lost prior...
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  • American Civil War on 19 June 1864, off Cherbourg, France. USS Maine (ACR-1) In January 1898, Maine was sent from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, to protect...
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    display. This exhibit tells the story of the loss of the battleship USS Maine (ACR-1), public outrage and the beginning of the United States as a global...
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    in Annapolis, Maryland on July 1, 1897. On February 15, 1898, he perished in the explosion that sank the USS Maine (ACR-1) in the harbor of Havana, Cuba...
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    USS North Carolina (ACR-12/CA-12) was a Tennessee-class armored cruiser of the United States Navy. The ship was built by Newport News Shipbuilding; she...
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    One gun from Maine (ACR-1) in Washington, DC at the National Museum of the United States Navy. One gun from Maine (ACR-1) in Portland, Maine at Fort Allen...
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    deployed forces to the island. That same year, American naval ship, USS Maine (ACR-1) exploded and sank in the Havana Harbor and resulted in the United...
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  • Herbert Hoover in November–December 1928. The goodwill tour by the USS Maine (ACR-1) to Havana harbor. The goodwill tour to Japan by Admiral Perry in 1852...
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    the remaining Amphitrite-class monitors, Monterey, and Maine. Two Mark 2 guns from USS Maine exist in Havana, Cuba, where they were incorporated into...
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    independence from Spain for several years, and after the destruction of the USS Maine (ACR-1) in Havana harbor on February 15, diplomatic relations between the...
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    The first USS West Virginia (ACR-5/CA-5), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 5", and later renamed Huntington, was a United States Navy Pennsylvania-class...
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    Cuba, the United States sent the battleship USS Maine (ACR-1) to Havana in late January 1898. The Maine exploded and was destroyed with large loss of...
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    (1876); Pine Ridge (1890–1891); North Dakota 1872. The sinking of the USS Maine (ACR-1) in Havana, Cuba once again led the US into war, this time against...
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    USS Mahonese (1846) USCGC Mahoning (WYT-91) USS Mahoning County (LST-914) USS Mahopac (1863, AT-29/ATO-29, ATA-196) USS Mail (1862) USS Maine (ACR-1,...
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  • least partially) constructed from metal salvaged from the battleship USS Maine (ACR-1),[citation needed] sunk during the Spanish–American War in 1898. The...
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  • use. USS Maine (ACR-1) USS Chicago (CA-14) USS Newark (C-1) USS San Francisco (C-5) USS Petrel (PG-2) USS Concord (PG-3) USS Bennington (PG-4) USS Boston...
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    Treaty. These ships were ordered in fiscal years 1900 (ACR-4 to ACR-6) and 1901 (ACR-7 to ACR-9) as part of the naval buildup touched off by the Spanish–American...
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    improved armor plate". When USS Maine (ACR-1) exploded in Havana Harbor, Cuba, on February 15, 1898, "Remember the Maine!" became a rallying cry and the...
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    Cuba, the United States sent the battleship USS Maine (ACR-1) to Havana in late January 1898. The Maine exploded under mysterious circumstances and was...
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