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Woburn, Massachusetts
USS Maine's Ventilation Cowl
This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.
In 1898 the battleship USS Maine was sent to Cuba to protect American interests in Cuba from the Spanish government. This piece is all that returned.
On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine sank as a result of an explosion in the ship’s powder magazine. The tragic accident claimed 260 lives and shocked the nation.“Remember the Maine” became the slogan that propelled the U.S. into war with Spain in 1898.
This ventilation cowl was recovered from the wreckage and now stands in Woburn Center as a memorial to the ship and the lives lost.
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