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Maine was a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on 15 February 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April. U.S. newspapers, engaging in yellow journalism to boost circulation, claimed that the Spanish were responsible for the ship's destruction.
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 23rd state. Maine was laid down in February 1899 at the William Cramp & Sons shipyard in Philadelphia. She was launched in July 1901 and commissioned into the fleet in December 1902.
USS Maine (ACR-1), was a battleship whose 1898 sinking precipitated the Spanish–American War. USS Maine (BB-10) , launched in 1901, was the lead ship of her class of battleships . She participated in the voyage of the Great White Fleet , and was decommissioned in 1920 to be sold for scrap in 1923.
Maine and Missouri remained in the Atlantic Fleet for their careers, though Ohio initially served with the Asiatic Fleet from 1904 to 1907. All three ships took part in the cruise of the Great White Fleet in 1907–1909, though Maine ' s excessive coal consumption forced her to proceed independently for most of the voyage.
Other public memorials to the Maine and the war in the state include one of the ship's cannons at Fort Allen Park in Portland, and a recovered projectile in Lewiston. The USS Maine Mast Memorial is in Arlington National Cemetery, and the principal national memorial to the Maine is the USS Maine National Monument in New York City.
USS Maine Pictures from the Library of Congress American Memory website; Photo gallery of Maine at NavSource Naval History – Construction – Active Service; USS Maine from NARA; Google Books: Black, William F. "The Story of the Maine" in Proceedings of the Municipal Engineers of the City of New York; to the Victims of the USS Maine (Havana)
How the Battleship Maine Was Destroyed is the name of a 1976 monograph written by Hyman G. Rickover, an admiral in the United States Navy. In the work, Rickover discusses the 1898 destruction of the USS Maine —a calamitous event which precipitated the United States' involvement in the Spanish–American War (1898).
TS State of Maine is the training ship of Maine Maritime Academy. Originally commissioned by the United States Navy as USNS Tanner (T-AGS-40), the ship assumed her present name and role in June 1997.