Thursday, January 25, 2007
This Day in Spanish-American History
On this day in 1898, the second class battleship USS Maine arrives at Havana harbor, Cuba, having sailed there from Key West, FL on orders of President McKinley so there was some relatively safe way for Americans to leave Cuba if the ever simmering revolution flared up. The Maine was a strange warship with the main gun turrets (with twin 10 inch guns) well offset from midline--bow turret to starboard and the stern turret to port. I'm not sure anyone knows why.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 12:04 AM 
