Battleship MAINE
Her final resting places - Part
3
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Her final resting places - Part
3
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here for MAINE's final resting places, Part 2
The left image is a close-up view of the plaque
mounted on the gun. The photo at right shows the markings on the
gun. The marks indicate that the 6 pounder was manufactured in 1894
and was a 6 pounder Mark III gun weighing 608 pounds. It is No. 207. MAINE
carried seven six-pounder rapid fire guns. (Photo courtesy of Kenneth
H. Robison II)
Capstan of the MAINE, located at the Battery in Charleston, South Carlolina (courtesy of Kenneth H. Robison, II).
There are plaques on three sides of the Capstan monument, reading as follows:
(Front Plaque):
Capstan of
U.S.S. Maine
Destroyed in Havana Harbor
By Extrenal Explosion
At 9:40 P.M. February 15th, 1898
With the Loss of 266 Lives
(Left Plaque):
Removed to this site
July 15th, 1927
Through the efforts of
Victor Blue Camp
United Spanish War Veterans
(Right Plaque):
Presented by
The Navy Department
To the City of Charleston
Through the Courtesy of
U.S. Senator Benjamin P. (F?) Tillman
May, 1913
The plaque on the front of the gun reads:
"6 inch - 30 caliber gun
From
U.S. Battleship
"Maine"
Sunk in Havana Harbor
February 15, 1898
This spare propeller balde from the MAINE is at the Washington Navy Yard Museum in Washington DC (contributed by Robert Conner).
The blade is marked:
"Spare
Propeller Blade from
U.S.S. Maine
Sunk in Havana Harbor
February 15, 1898"
One of the MAINE's gun ports
at Lakeside Park in Oakland, California (near Oakland's venerable
Children's Fairyland). The plaque that identified it as being from the
MAINE is now missing. (info. and image courtesy
of Harry S. Yaglijian)
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