USS Maine Specs

Maine Class Battleship: Displacement 6,682 Tons, Dimensions, 324' 4" (oa) x 57' x 22' 6" (Max). Armament 4 x 10"/30 6 x 6"/30, 4 x 21" tt. Armor, 12" Belt, 8" Turrets, 3" Decks, 10" Conning Tower. Machinery, 9,000 IHP; 2 Vertical, Triple expansion engines, 2 screws. Speed, 17 Knots, Crew 374.

Operational and Building Data: Laid down by New York Naval Ship Yard on October 17 1888. Launched November 18 1890. Commissioned September 17 1895. Decommissioned (Lost due to explosion.)

Fate: Blew up and sank, Havana Harbor, Cuba, February 15 1898. Hulk raised February 13 1912, Towed to sea and sunk in 600 fathoms of water in the Florida Strait, March 16 1912. 260 Officers and men died in the explosion of the Maine and remain on duty.

The USS Maine in Bar Harbor, 1895.