Eighty years after a torpedo ripped through the hull of the USS Eagle PE-56, just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth’s ...

This in-depth breakdown covers the dramatic rise of the United States as a global power following the 1898 Spanish-American ...

At 9:40pm on February 15, 1898, the battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana Harbor ... Recent research suggests that the explosion may have been an accident, involving a spontaneous combustion ...

Suddenly, a massive explosion rocked ... Today, the loss of the USS Eagle PE-56 is remembered in the pages of American history and in the most enduring of our Stories from Maine.

On February 15, 1898, a mysterious explosion destroyed the American battleship Maine in Havana Harbor and helped propel the United States into a war with Spain. The USS Maine was in Cuba ...