Battleship MAINE

lantern slide

Lantern slide; black and white starboard view of US Naval battleship MAINE; label reads "No 15406 War Vessels/ U.S.B. 'Maine' broadside"; small label reads "2"; recent sticker reads "MAINE". Underway, probably in New York harbor. See article in the "Log of Mystic Seaport", Summer 1998, Vol. 50, No. 1, p. 15.

The battleship MAINE was built by Quintard Iron Works in Brooklyn, NY 1888. She was designed by Theodore Wilson and sank in Havana on February 2, 1898. She was later refloated.