Wreck of the Maine in Havana Harbor Small 320×191 Medium 640×382 Large 1024×611 Download TIFF Original 2400×1432 | (1.6 MB) Description USS Maine (ACR-1), the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the state of Maine, was a 6,682-ton second-class pre-dreadnought battleship. The sinking of the Maine precipitated the Spanish-American War. Keywords battleship, Spanish-American War, sunk, USS Maine, wreck Galleries 1899 Spanish-American War, Caribbean, Steam-Powered Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 2) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)
