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USS Maine, 1898

The battleship blew up in Havana harbor in February 1898; war followed in April. Newspaper pages from 1898 on a map and timeline.

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23,766,177 pages from 4,691 newspapers, 1736–1963.

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10745 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (597 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. Evening Star — 1898-01-13, page 1

    … discuss the matter, he would say that he had not made any change In the orders to the battle ship Maine, now lying at Key West. Inquiry developed the fact that the Maine's last orders …

    … than It has been In the past ten years. At Key West there are the second-class battle ship Maine and the cruiser Marblehead: at Jacksonville the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius; at St …

  2. Evening Star — 1898-01-13, page 2

    … Indiana will leave Hampton Roads on that day for Key West, where they will join the battleship Maine and the monitor Terror. The battleship Massa chusetts and the cruiser Brooklyn …

  3. The Times — 1898-01-14, page 1

    The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.

    These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.

    … Confederate army and in Mexico. Tbe Marblehead Accident. Capt. Sigsbee, of the battleship Maine, telegra ed from Key West to the Navy Department yesterday that four of the cruiser …

  4. The Times — 1898-01-14, page 2

    … camp discovered, in. New Guiana. The Marblehead Afuidentr. Capt. Sigsbee, of the battleship Maine, telegraphed from Key West to the Navy Department yesterday that four of the cruiser …

  5. Evening Star — 1898-01-15, page 1

    … has been instructed to communicate direct with Captain Sigsbee, commanding the battle ship Maine at Key West, in case of serious trouble at Havana in order that that vessel may …

  6. The Evening Times — 1898-01-15, page 1

    … quite a respectable contingent of warships in Florida waters, consist ing of the battleship Maine, the ciulsers Detroit and Montgomery, and a small flotilla of torpedo boats. Today …

  7. Evening Star — 1898-01-17, page 1

    … otticlals ridicule a published report from Key West that a Spanish cruiser fired on the battle ship Maine oft the coa?t of Florida. The Maine has not been out of the harbor of Key West …

  8. Evening Star — 1898-01-17, page 2

    … for the protection of Ameri can Interests In Cuba in case of an emer gency. The battle ship Maine is at Key West fully irt pared for sea at a moment s notice, and It would not take …

  9. The Evening Times — 1898-01-17, page 1

    … WEST. Big Battleship Still Lying at An chor There. Key West, Fla.. Jan. 17. The battle ship Maine was still anchored here this morning. A rumor has reached here that the Havana …

  10. The Times — 1898-01-17, page 1

    … Said It Was. Xews to Them. A report was circulated in the city last night that the battleship Maine had been fired upon by Spanish cruis ers somewhere off the Florida coast yesterday …

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