Photo #: NH 46767
USS Maine (1895-1898)
Launching, at the New York Navy Yard, 18 November 1889. Engraving copied
from Scientific American magazine, Vol. 45, 1898.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (88,884 bytes) |
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Photo #: NH 60255-A
USS Maine (1895-1898)
Photographed circa 1895-98.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (56,000 bytes) |
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Photo #: NH 48621
USS Maine (1895-1898)
Port quarter view, taken in Bar Harbor, Maine, 1895.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (76,024 bytes) |
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Photo #: NH 48622
USS Maine (1895-1898)
View looking forward on deck, port side, taken while the ship was visiting
Bar Harbor, Maine, 1895.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (111,144 bytes) |
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Photo #: NH 95096
Captain Charles D. Sigsbee, U.S. Navy, commanding officer of USS Maine
when she was lost.
Photograph published in Bohemia, 1904, by the International League
of Press Clubs, opposite page 26.
Courtesy of Larry Franklin, 1983.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (72,109 bytes) |
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Photo #: NH 46729
USS Maine (1895-1898)
"Evening Amusements": crewmembers playing cards and reading in
their berthing spaces, circa 1895-1898. Halftone photograph, copied from
the contemporary publication Uncle Sam's Navy, 1898.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (78,128 bytes) |
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Photo #: NH 48619
USS Maine (1895-1898)
Passing Morro Castle as she entered Havana harbor, Cuba, on 25 January 1898.
She was destroyed by explosion there some three weeks later. Halftone original
image.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (62,752 bytes) |
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Photo #: NH 61236
USS Maine (1895-1898)
Is destroyed by explosion, in Havana Harbor, Cuba, 15 February 1898. Artwork,
copied from the contemporary publication, Uncle Sam's Navy.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (66,313 bytes) |
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Photo #: NH 46774
USS Maine (1895-1898)
U.S. Navy diving crew at work on the ship's wreck, in 1898, seen from aft
looking forward.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (69,531 bytes) |
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Photo #: NH 46765
Loss of USS Maine, 15 February 1898.
Funeral procession for crewmen killed when the ship exploded, in the streets
of Havana, Cuba, shortly after the disaster. Retouched halftone photograph,
copied from Uncle Sam's Navy, Volume IV, Number 3, 19 April 1898.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (75,964 bytes) |
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Photo #: NH 48273
Fitzhugh Lee
United States Consul General in Havana, Cuba, when the USS Maine
was lost. Halftone photograph taken in 1894, copied from Uncle Sam's
Navy, Volume IV, Number 3, 19 April 1898.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (59,287 bytes) |
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Photo #: NH 46764
USS Maine Court of Inquiry, 1898.
Members of the Navy Court of Inquiry examining Ensign Wilfrid V. Powelson,
on board the U.S. Light House Tender Mangrove, in Havana Harbor,
Cuba, circa March 1898. Those seated around the table include (from left
to right): Captain French E. Chadwick, Captain William T. Sampson, Lieutenant
Commander William P. Potter, Ensign W.V. Powelson, Lieutenant Commander
Adolph Marix. Photograph copied from Uncle Sam's Navy, 12 April 1898.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (77,296 bytes) |
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Photo #: NH 61674
USS Maine (1895-1898)
Retouched image of a photograph by A. Loeffler, with an inset portrait of
her last commanding officer, Captain Charles D. Sigsbee, USN. This print
was published as a memento following the ship's loss.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (89,259 bytes) |
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