In the Second Book of Shmuel (Samuel), 22nd chapter, 5th through the 19th verses, translated from the original in Hebrew and published by the Koren Publishers of Jerusalem, Israel, can perhaps aptly describe the fate of the crew and all other U.S.sailors who died defending their county:
"When the waves of death compassed me / the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; / the bonds of She'ol encircled me; / the snares of death took me by surprise; / in my distress I called upon the Lord, / and cried to my G-D: / and he heard my voice out of his temple, / and my cry entered into his ears. / Then the earth shook and trembled; /the foundations of heaven moved / and shook because of his anger /...the heavy mass of waters, and thick clouds of the skies /... And the channels of the sea appeared, / the foundations of the world were laid bare, / at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast at the breath of his nostrils. / He sent from above, he took me; / he drew me out of many waters; / he delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too strong for me. / They surprised me in the day of my calamity: / but the Lord was my stay..."
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 | 3.32k | THE UNITED STATES BATTLE-SHIP MAINE. From a Photograph Taken For the New York Herald at Key West on January 16. MAINE DESTROYED IN HAVANA HARBOR THE SHIP IS BLOWN UP AT ANCHOR Four Hundred and Twenty of Uncle Sam's Brave Boys Are Killed. One of the Most Awful Disasters That Have Ever Overtaken the American Navy, and Spain is Open to Suspicion. | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Photo from The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 16 February 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 78k | The Maine is destroyed by explosion, in Havana Harbor, Cuba, 15 February 1898. Artwork, copied from the contemporary publication Uncle Sam's Navy. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 61236. | |
 | 232k | Painting by the The Chicago firm of Kurz & Allison showing the destruction of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, with inserts of location of the "Maine-Havana Habor," recovering the dead bodies, and head-and-shoulders portraits of Admiral Sicard and Captain Sigsbee. | Digital ID: # 3j00059v, LC-USZC4-1572. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection. | |
 | 449k | Maine baseball team, 1897. All blown up at Havana except J.H. Bloomer (back row, left corner) when the Maine was sunk by a mysterious explosion on 15 February 1898 in Havana harbor. | Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Photo courtesy of SK/3 Tommy Trampp via Garu Priolo. | |
 | 983k | SCENE AFTER THE EXPLOSION IN HAVANA HARBOR The Spanish Warship Alphonso XII Training Its Searchlight on the Sinking Battleship Maine - Boats Picking Up the Survivors. | Image and text provided by State Historical Society of Missouri; Columbia, MO. Photo from The Kansas City Journal (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 19 February 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 524k | Wreck of the Maine, sometime after 15 February 1898. | NARA FILE #: 019-N-19-9-17. Photo # HD-SN-99-01931,from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
 | 365k | Wreck of the Maine, sometime after 15 February 1898. | NARA FILE #: 019-N-2454. Photo # HD-SN-99-01930, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
 | 3.59k | AMERICAN SHIPS ARE AMERICAN SOIL SPANIARDS MUST KEEP HANDS OFF Even as a Wreck the Maine Is American. If Spain Attempts to Interfere With the Investigation It Will Be Considered as an Unpardonable Act |
Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Photo from The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 19 February 1898, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 990k | THE MAINE AS SHE NOW APPEARS IN HAVANA HARBOR-AND MEMBERS OF THE COURT OF INQUIRY. | Image and text provided by Library of Virginia; Richmond, VA. Photo from Richmond Dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 20 February 1898, Image 17, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 773k | The Enemys' Blow or Accident? How the Discovery May Be Made. | Image and text provided by University of North Texas; Denton, TX. Photo from The Houston Daily Post. (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 20 February 1898, MAILABLE EDITION, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 3.88k | The Maine as she lay in the darkness at buoy No. 4 on the night of the disaster, with the object (supposed to have been a torpedo) described by a member of her crew as moving rapidly through the water toward the vessel. | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Photo from The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 20 February 1898, Image 9, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 2.1k | TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY EIGHT AMERICAN SAILORS DEAD Terrible Destruction of the Magnificent Battleship Maine Was the Greatest Calamity that Has Ever Befallen the Navy of the United States. | Image and text provided by Library of Virginia; Richmond, VA. Photo from The Hocking Sentinel. (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 23 February 1898, Image 10, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 3.18k | AN OUTSIDE EXPLOSION WRECKED THE MAINE EVIDENCE OF TREACHERY IS CONCLUSIVE. | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.] 1895-1913, 24 Feb. 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 773k | TO RAISE THE MAINE's HULK The Giant Tug C. A. Merritt Has Been Selected for The Heavy Task | Image and text provided by University of North Texas; Denton, TX. Photo from The Houston Daily Post. (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 26 February 1898, MAILABLE EDITION, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 3.75k | FORWARD DECK OF THE BATTLE-SHIP MAINE AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Photo from The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 28 February 1898, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 3.7k | KEEL OF THE MAINE WAS BROKEN IN HALF DIVERS HAVE POSITIVE EVIDENCE THAT A MINE DESTROYED THE SHIP The Double Turreted Monitor Puritan (BM-1), One of the Most Powerful Warships Afloat. | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.] 1895-1913, 02 March 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 1.07k | THE WRECK OF THE Maine - FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN THE MORNING AFTER THE EXPLOSION. The Wreck of the Maine is Slowly Sinking in Mud | Image and text provided by Library of Virginia; Richmond, VA. Photo from The Big Stone Gap Post. (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 03 March 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 1.07k | The Wreck of the Maine is Slowly Sinking in Mud | Image and text provided by State Historical Society of Missouri; Columbia, MO. Photo from The Big Stone Gap Post. (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 03 March 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 3.57k | WRECKING THE MAINE THE RIGHT ARM AT WORK ON THE WRECK | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 8 March 1898, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. PDF added 02/10/12. | |
 | 1.2k | THE COURT OF INQUIRY'S REPORT A SUBMARINE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE MAINE, SHOWING WHERE THE EXPLOSION STARTED | Image and text provided by University of North Texas; Denton, TX. Photo from The Houston Daily Post. (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 29 March 1898, MAILABLE EDITION, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 1.09k | THE LATE SECOND CLASS BATTLESHIP MAINE. | Image and text provided by University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Photo from The Bourbon News. (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 01 April 1898, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 343k | Covering the caskets of the Maine victims with flowers. | Photo courtesy of Arnold Putnam. | |
 | 89k | Funeral procession for crewmen killed when the ship exploded, in the streets of Havana, Cuba, shortly after the disaster. Retouched halftone photograph, copied from Uncle Sam's Navy, Volume IV, Number 3, 19 April 1898. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 46765. | |
 | 3.64k | The Battleship Maine Blows Up. Tonight at Forest Park A startling bewildering and awe inspiring spectacle-a living seething mass of fire, flame and varied colored explosives-a sight once seen never to be forgotten. Pain, the Fireworks King of all the world, under the supervision of six skilled pyrotechnists, will present the above as well as the following marvelous Fireworks Specialties..... | Image and text provided by University of North Texas; Denton, TX. Photo & text by The Houston Daily Post. (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 19 April 1898, MAILABLE EDITION, Image 5, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 110k | HABANA Recuerdo del Maine - Souvenir of Maine 1898 - no date. | Photo courtesy of Arnold Putnam. | |
 | 298k | Probably an earlier view of the wreck of the Maine, similiar view below showing advanced weather damage. | Photo courtesy of Arnold Putnam. | |
 | 520k | Post card of the wreck of the Maine in Havana, Cuba. | Photo by William Henry Jackson, # det 4a31863, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. via SK/3 Tommy Trampp. | |
 | 380k | Bow view of the wreck of the Maine in Havana, Cuba. | Photo courtesy of Arnold Putnam. | |
 | 218k | Wreck of the Maine in Havana, Cuba. | Digital ID: # 2162913335_02411df444_o. LC-B2-2332-14. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection, courtesy of Tom Kermen. | |
 | 148k | The Maine's mast. | Digital ID: # 2162694685_7a864ed471_o. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection, courtesy of Tom Kermen. | |
 | 69k | U.S. Navy diving crew at work on the ship's wreck, in 1898, seen from aft looking forward. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 46774. | |
 | 14k | This is an original Remember the Maine Button with pin. These were made by J. Floersheim, Kunstadter & Co., Jackson & Market St's., Chicago,IL. This one was dated 21 July 1898. | Courtesy of Paul Petosky. | |
 | 47k | Sign of the times and expression of feelings. "War Before Dishonor." | Photo courtesy of timepassagesnostalgia.com & submitted by Tom Kermen. | |
 | 159k | Wm. H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee (formerly of Primrose & West). Cincinnati; New York: Strobridge Litho. Co., c1898. | Digital ID: # 1802r, LC-USZ62-24126. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection. | |
Additional Maine Images
Maine (Over View) 19 Images From The Library Of Congress Server.
Maine (Launch) 12 Images From The Library Of Congress Server.
Maine (Details) 10 Images From The Library Of Congress Server.
Maine (Crew) 22 Images From The Library Of Congress Server.
Maine (Marines) 6 Images From The Library Of Congress Server.
Maine (Wreck) 14 Images From The Library Of Congress Server.
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