USS Maine (BB-10)
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The USS Maine underway | |
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| Laid down: | 15 February 1899 |
| Launched: | 27 July 1901 |
| Commissioned: | 29 December 1902 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 May 1920 |
| Fate: | scrapped |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 12,500 tons light, 13,500 tons full |
| Length: | 394 ft overall, 388 feet waterline |
| Beam: | 72.3 ft |
| Draft: | 24.3 ft mean, 26 ft max |
| Speed: | 18 knots |
| Complement: | 1,017 officers and men |
| Armament: | 4 x 12-inch guns, 16 x 6-inch guns, 6 x 3-inch guns, 8 x 3-pounders, 6 x 1-pounders, 3 x .30-caliber machine guns, 2 x 18-inch submerged torpedo tubes |
USS Maine (BB-10), the lead ship of her class of battleships, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the 23rd state.
The contract to build Maine was awarded to William Cramp and Sons of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 1, 1898, and her keel was laid down on 15 February 1899, a year to the day after the destruction of the first Maine She was launched on 27 July 1901, sponsored by Miss Mary Preble Anderson, and commissioned at Philadelphia on 29 December 1902 with Captain Eugene H.C. Leutze in command.
From 1903 to 1907 Maine cruised along the Atlantic coast south to the West Indies, and she completed one cruise to the Mediterranean Sea. On 16 December, 1907 she left Hampton Roads with the rest of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet en route to the Pacific Ocean where she joined ships of that fleet for a cruise around the world. In company with Alabama, she went to Guam and the Philippines, through the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, and returned to the Atlantic coast in October 1908, considerably in advance of the rest of the "Great White Fleet."
Fitted out as flagship of the Third Squadron, Atlantic Fleet, Maine resumed operations along the Atlantic coast and into Caribbean waters during the next several months. She decommissioned at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on 31 August, 1909. Recommissioned on 15 June, 1911, Maine operated along the east coast. During World War I, she trained engineers, armed guard crews, and midshipmen. Following the defeat of the Central Powers, she took part in the review of the fleet at New York City on 26 December, 1918.
Maine operated with ships of the Atlantic Fleet until 15 May, 1920 when she decommissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard. She was sold on 23 January, 1922 to Joseph G. Hitner and William F. Cutlet of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for scrap. She was rendered incapable of further warlike service on 17 December, 1923 in accordance with terms of the Washington Naval Treaty, and subsequently broken up and scrapped.
See USS Maine for other ships of this name.
| Maine-class battleship |
| Maine | Missouri | Ohio |
| List of battleships of the United States Navy |