U.S.S. Maine
BB-10
1902
(Navis 313)
- Class: Maine - 3 battleships of 1899
- Displacement: 12,846 tons
- Dimensions: 388 (wl) 394 (oa) x 72 x 24 ft
- Machinery: 2-shaft steam reciprocating (VTE), IHP 16,000 = 18 knots
- Armor: KC, Harvey: Belt 11-5.5in, forward 8-4in, barbettes 12-8in, turrets 12-11in, secondary guns 6-5.5in, CT 10in
- Armament: 4-12in/40 (2x2), 16-6in/50, 6-3in/50 guns, 8-3pdr, 6-1pdr; 2-18in TT sub
- Complement: 648
- Builder: William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, PA
- Keel Laid: 15 Feb 1899
- Launched: 27 Jul 1901
- Commissioned: 29 Dec 1902
- Decommissioned: 31 Aug 1909
- Recommissioned: 15 Jun 1911
- Decommissioned: 15 May 1920
- History: Laid down a year to the day after the destruction of the first Maine. From 1903 to 1907 she cruised along the Atlantic Coast to the West Indies and she made one trip to the Mediterranean. On 16 Dec 1907 she left Hampton Roads for a cruise around the world as part of the Great White Fleet. After reaching the Pacific, she and the Alabama went to Guam and the Philippines, through the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, and returned to the Atlantic Coast in Oct 1908 in advance of the rest of the Great White Fleet. She decommissioned for two years, during which she was modernized with cage masts replacing the original military masts, and then returned to service along the east coast. By 1915 4-6pdr replaced her 3pdrs; by 1918 secondary armament reduced to 8-6in and 2-3in AA guns. During WWI she trained engineers, armed guard crews, and midshipmen. Decommissioned again in 1920, she was sold in 1922 and scrapped in 1923.
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