Keywords: Lot 8936-38: USS Maine (ACR 1), raising her wreck in Havana Harbor, Cuba, November 5, 1911. Shown: location of outside explosion, showing bottom plate bent inwards. Maine exploded on February 15, 1898, and was one of the causes for the United States to enter war with Spain, Spanish-American War, April-August 1898. Transfer from the War Department, Washington. (10/2/2015). Lot 8936-38: USS Maine (ACR 1), raising her wreck in Havana Harbor, Cuba, November 5, 1911. Shown: location of outside explosion, showing bottom plate bent inwards. Maine exploded on February 15, 1898, and was one of the causes for the United States to enter war with Spain, Spanish-American War, April-August 1898. Transfer from the War Department, Washington. (10/2/2015). |