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FIRST-CLASS BATTLESHIP "MAINE"

Length, 388 feet. Breadth, 72 feet 2 1/2 inches. Mean Draft, 23 feet 10 inches. Displacement, 12,500 tons. Speed, 18 knots. Bunker Capacity, 1,875 tons. Batteries: Main Battery, four 12-inch breech-loading rifles, sixteen 6-inch rapid fire guns. Secondary battery, six 3-inch rapid fire guns, eight 3-pounder rapid fire guns, two 1-pounder guns, two 3-inch field pieces, two automatic guns, caliber .30, two machine guns, caliber .30, two 18-inch submerged torpedo tubes. Armor: Belt 11 inches; turrets, 12 inches; barbettes, 12 inches; deck 2 1/2 inches. Complement: 41 officers, 772 men. Built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Launched July 27, 1901.

Photo copyright 1907, by Enrique Muller

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