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 ...

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.

Each recruit had to be a good shot be able to ride anything in the line of horseflesh, a rough and ready fighter, and above ...

Yet, it was under his mandate that the Spanish-American War broke out, shortly after the explosion of the American battleship USS MAINE in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, which was attributed ...

Sent to Havana Harbor during the Cuban War of Independence against the Spanish, the USS Maine and its accidental explosion set the stage for America's declaration of war with Spain. Unverified ...

NORFOLK, Va. — USS Iowa veterans gathered at Naval Station Norfolk Saturday morning for their annual tribute to their fallen fellow sailors on the battleship. One by one, the names of the 47 sailors ...