USA Remember The (USS) Maine 1898  

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Catalogue information

LastDodo number
5268725
Area
Tokens / Medals
Title
USA Remember The (USS) Maine 1898
Type
Commemorative tokens
Publisher
Value
Country
Verenigde Staten
Year
1898
Collection / set
Material
Aluminum
Weight
Variety / overstrike
Obverse
REMEMBER THE MAINE DESTROYED FEB 15, 1898
Reverse
AVENGERS of the MAINE: Miles, Dewey, Sampson, & Shanter
Privy mark
Mint mark
Designer
Engraver
Dimensions / Diameter
39
Number
Details
USS Maine (ACR-1), commissioned in 1895, was the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after the state of Maine.[a][1] Originally classified as an armored cruiser, she was built in response to the Brazilian battleship Riachuelo and the increase of naval forces in Latin America. The Maine is best known for her catastrophic loss in Havana Harbor on the evening of 15 February 1898. Sent to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban revolt against Spain, she exploded suddenly without warning and sank quickly, killing nearly three-quarters of her crew. The cause and responsibility for her sinking remained unclear after a board of inquiry. Nevertheless, popular opinion in the U.S., fanned by inflammatory articles printed in the "Yellow Press" by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, blamed Spain. The phrase "Remember the Maine, to Hell with Spain!" became a rallying cry for action, which came with the Spanish-American War later that year.