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BB-10 USS MAINE
1899 - 1910


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1911 - 1922


Maine Class Battleship: Displacement 12,500 Tons, Dimensions, 393' 11" (oa) x 72' 3" x 26' 8" (Max), Armament 4 x 12"/40 16 x 6"/50, 6 x 3"/50 2 x 18" tt. Armor, 11" Belt, 12" Turrets, 4" Decks, 10" Conning Tower. Machinery, 16,000 IHP; 2 vertical, Inverted, triple expansion engines, 2 screws. Speed, 18 Knots, Crew 561.

Operational and Building Data: Laid down by Cramp, Philadelphia February 15 1899. Launched July 27 1901. Commissioned December 29 1902. Decommissioned August 31 1909, Recommissioned June 15 1911, Decommissioned May 15 1920. Stricken July 1 1921.
Fate: Sold January 26 1922 and broken up for scrap.
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BB-10 Maine81kMaine Class Battleship Pen and ink drawing by F. Muller, circa 1900, representing the intended appearance of the three Maine Class ships once completed. These ships were: Maine (BB-10), Missouri (BB-11) and Ohio (BB-12).Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, USNHC # NH 76392.
BB-10 Maine87k A circa 1900's postcard of the Maine (BB-10) drawn by Edward H. Mitchell Publishers of San Francisco, CA.Photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
BB-10 Maine66kPhotographed in 1903 by J.W. Dawson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.USNHC # 61213.
BB-10 Maine36kCirca 1903, as built.USN photo.
BB-10 Maine71kPanoramic photograph of the ships' Officers & Crew, taken looking aft from her forecastle on 10 February 1903. Maine's (BB-10) Commanding Officer, Captain Eugene H.C. Leutze, is standing just to the left of the 12"/40 gun in the center of the photo. Standing beside Capt. Leutze, to the left, is Lieutenant Commander Thomas S. Rodgers.Note items in the foreground, including the capstain, anchor chain, and a pontoon raft.USNHC # 46798.
BB-10 Maine101kMaine (BB-10), underway, starboard view, circa 1903-05.Randy Kimes/USN photo.
BB-10 Maine150kMaine (BB-10), underway, circa 1903-05.Randy Kimes/USN photo.
BB-10 Maine145kMaine (BB-10), port side, circa 1903-05. Randy Kimes/USN photo.
BB-10 Maine130kStereoscopic color print of the Maine (BB-10), bow view, circa 1906.Courtesy of Paul Petosky.
BB-10 Maine45kExplanation on the reverse side of the stereoscopic color print of the Maine (BB-10), circa 1906.Courtesy of Paul Petosky.
BB-10 Maine128kShips' Officers & some of her Crew, posed by her after 12"/40 gun gun turret, circa 1907. USNHC # 92092.
BB-10 Maine103kStern view, June 1907. Pt. Comfort Virginia.USNI/USN photo.
BB-10 Maine107kBaseball game between the crews of the Iowa (BB-4) and the Maine (BB-10), Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 1907.From the collection of Capt. Thomas C. Edrington III, USN, courtesy of his daughter Kyra Larn Edrington and son Thomas C. Edrington IV.
BB-10 Maine70kPhotographed by Enrique Muller, while at anchor in 1907.Photograph # USNHC # 19-N-11305, from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
BB-10 Maine102kIn port, circa 1903-1907.USNHC # 74103.
BB-10 Maine124kIn drydock at Hunter's Point, San Francisco, California, circa 1908.USNHC # 63509.
BB-10 Maine114kAt anchor, circa 1908 or earlier. Photo printed on a stereograph card, copyrighted in 1908 by Underwood & Underwood.USNHC # 100309.
Great White Fleet 345k The "Great White Fleet" steaming in column, probably while departing Hampton Roads, Virginia, at the start of their cruise around the World, December 1907. Kansas (BB-21) is at left, followed by Vermont (BB-20). USN photo # N-0000X-001 courtesy of navy.mil. Photographed by C.E. Waterman, Hampton, Va.
Straits of Magellan290k The "Great White Fleet" in the Straits of Magellan, 1908, from a painting by Henry Reuterdahl.Photograph courtesy of Pieter Bakels. Photo added 03/20/08.
BB-18 Connecticut99kCommanding officers of most of the fleet's ships, photographed in 1908. Those present include (Seated, left to right): Captain Hugo Osterhaus, of Connecticut (BB-18); Captain Kossuth Niles, of Louisiana (BB-19); Captain William P. Potter, of Vermont (BB-20); Captain John Hubbard, of Minnesota (BB-22); Captain Joseph B. Murdock, of Rhode Island (BB-17); Captain Charles E. Vreeland, of Kansas (BB-21).
Standing, left to right): Captain Hamilton Hutchins, of Kearsarge (BB-05); Captain Frank E. Beatty, of Wisconsin (BB-09); Captain Reginald F. Nicholson, of Nebraska (BB-14); Captain Thomas B. Howard, of Ohio (BB-12); Captain William H.H. Southerland, of New Jersey (BB-16); Captain Walter C. Cowles, of Kentucky (BB-06); Captain John M. Bowyer, of Illinois (BB-07); Captain Alexander Sharp, of Virginia (BB-13); Lieutenant Commander Charles B. McVay, of Yankton.
USNHC # NH 59552.
BB-18 Connecticut185kThe Connecticut (BB-18) leading the other fifteen warships of the Great White Fleet into Magdalena Bay, Mexico on 12 March 1908 to take on coal and hold long-delayed target practice. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH-59537, courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
BB-18 Connecticut139kThe Connecticut (BB-18) leading the Great White Fleet into San Francisco Bay on 6 May 1908. The original photo was taken by C.E. Waterman. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH-59537, courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Great White Fleet 192k The Great White Fleet lies in San Francisco Bay on 6 May 1908.
Nearest ship is an Illinois class (BB-7 / 9) battleship. Ahead of it are what appears to be two Maine class (BB-10 / 12) battleships.
Photo by Louis Bostwick, courtesy of greatwhitefleet.info, by William Stewart.
Naval Review in San Francisco Bay, 17 May 1908 155k Panoramic photograph by the Pillsbury Picture Company showing the review of the "Great White Fleet" on 17 May 1908 by Secretary of the Navy Victor A. Metcalf, embarked in Yorktown (PG-1), which is steaming toward the left in the right center of the image. Three destroyers are in the line nearest to the camera (from left to center), with either Hopkins (DD-6) or Hull (DD-7) in the center and Lawrence (DD-8) next astern. Eleven battleships are present, in the rows on the opposite side of Yorktown's course, and seven Pacific Fleet armored cruisers are in the most distant row. Photo # NH 105310, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center.
BB-10 Maine42kBow on view of the Maine (BB-10), circa 1909. USN / USNI photo.
BB-10 Maine66kMaine (BB-10), photographed by Brown & Shaffer, 1909.USNHC # 101512.

Additional Maine Images
4 General Views Of Maine From The Library Of Congress Server.

USS MAINE BB-10 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Not applicable to this ship.
Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway Battleship Pages By Andrew Toppan.
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