At the time the largest ship ever to enter Havana harbor, FTP, remember this battleship whose 1898 sinking propelled the Spanish-American War.
Officially known as "Armored Cruiser #1", it was summoned to its final destination by Consul Fitzhugh Lee.  Captained by Charles Sigsbee, a 1976 investigation by Admiral Rickover contradicted the conclusion of the earlier Sampson Board of Inquiry by holding that the cause of its demise was most likely a coal burner fire rather than an externally caused explosion. At the time the largest ship ever to enter Havana harbor, FTP, remember this battleship whose 1898 sinking propelled the Spanish-American War.
Officially known as "Armored Cruiser #1", it was summoned to its final destination by Consul Fitzhugh Lee.  
USS Maine