the USS Maine blew up at its mooring in Havana harbor. As the devastating explosion twisted and crushed the small battleship, 260 of the 360-man crew were killed instantly; another seven died soon ...

The USS Maine was ... as a “second-class battleship,” or more properly an “armored cruiser.” But on a winter’s night in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, the Maine was forever etched into ...

The city cuts the grass. Joe Pais, vice chairman of the USS Battleship Maine Centennial Commission, is part of a group trying to get the decision reversed. "The Navy's been here for 175 years ...

The five names selected were Montana, Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire ... the only serious competitors in the “super-battleship” weight class were the Soviet Sovetsky Soyuz class, and the German ...

For 20 years, a weathered wood and iron artifact was on display at a tiny museum in Park Ridge, N.J. A small sign stated it was “purported” to be part of the mast from the USS Maine ...

OAKLAND (CBS/AP) - A group of unusually determined thieves has stolen from an Oakland park a five-foot-tall brass port hole that once graced a 19th Century battleship. City naturalist Stephanie ...

Scientists with the Warren Lasch Conservation Center recently received the century-old, six-inch, 30-caliber gun from the U.S. Navy battleship ... selected for the USS Maine conservation work.

When the United States and its allies entered World War II, the Iowa-class battleship quickly ... the commissioning of the USS Montana (BB-67), USS Ohio (BB-68, USS Maine (BB-69), USS New ...

Feb. 15 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1764, the city of St. Louis was founded along the Mississippi River. In 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen ...