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BB-10 USS MAINE
1911 - 1922


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1899 - 1910


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 Maine65k Inboard profile of Maine (BB-10) as modernized with cage masts. Note the installation of a central (fire control) station, which the U.S. Navy considered the key to long range gunnery. Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman.
BB-32 Wyoming25k"Ships of the Atlantic Fleet playing their searchlights at night along the Hudson River."USN photo by Underwood & Underwood, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Text courtesy of N.Y. Times, 16 May 1915, Page 1. Photo added 02/16/08.
Atlantic Fleet38k"The Atlantic Fleet saluting the President as it passed out to sea last Tuesday mid-day, with the New York skyline in the background."
The battleship on the right with the 3 smoke stacks is too unclear to make out for positive I.d. aside from being either from the Maine (BB-10 / 12), Virginia (BB-13 / 17) or Connecticut (BB-18-22 & 25) classes.
Photo by International News Service, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Text courtesy of N.Y. Times, 23 May 1915, Page 1. Photo added 02/16/08.
BB-11 Missouri51kMissouri (BB-11) operating as a training ship, circa 1917. The next ship astern is probably Maine (BB-10).USNHC # NH 45915.
BB-10 Maine120kYacht Atlantis(SP-40) passing the Maine (BB-10), prior to World War I. Photograph USNHC # 95862, by Paul Thompson, New York.
BB-10 Maine94k Underway, circa 1918, port side view, shows the ship after modernization. This included cage masts, unarmored range finders on her turrets, a minimal bridge, and removal of 6" secondary guns, with the wet ones, forward, completely plated over.Photograph USNHC # 19-N-14933, from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
BB-10 Maine101k In the Hudson River, New York, 27 December 1918. Note wartime modifications, including removal of some broadside guns.USNHC # 2892.
BB-10 Maine23kPort Side, 1919.USN photo courtesy of Larry Bonn.
BB-11 Missouri69kPhiladelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania. Older warships in the Reserve Basin, 18 November 1919, as seen by a Philadelphia Evening Ledger photographer. Ships are (front row, left to right): Missouri (BB-11); one Connecticut class battleship; Michigan (BB-27); and Saint Louis (C-20). Those in the back row are (left to right): Maine (BB-10); Kentucky (BB-6);Kearsarge (BB-5); Indiana (BB-1); Massachusetts (BB-2); Iowa (BB-4); Wisconsin (BB-9); and Illinois (BB-7). USNHC # NH 42525.
BB-9 Wisconsin63kU.S. Navy warships awaiting scrapping, 1922. Probably photographed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Maine (BB-10) is at right, down at the head with her side armor removed. Wisconsin (BB-9) is in the center. Columbia, (ex-Columbia) (CA-16) is toward the left, with a merchant ship alongside. USNHC # 100762.
(NISMF)371kA guest studies a painting depicting the history of battleships. The artwork was painted by George Skybeck and presented to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association during their annual banquet at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 8 Dec 1991. USN photo # DN-SC-92-05391, by PHC Carolyn Harris, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.

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
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

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