US Battleship "Maine"
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Series 9509 Built at Philadelphia by Wm. Cramp & Sons. Length 388 feet; beam 72 feet 2 1/2 inches. Mean draft 23 5-6 feet. Displacement 12,500 tons. Speed on trial 18 knots; horsepower 15,603. Cost $2,885,000. Launched July 27, 1901. Commissioned December 29, 1902. Tow military masts and three funnels. Complement of 41 officers and 772 men. (Fitted as flagship). Main battery-four 12-in. BLR in turrets, also four 6-in. RF guns in broadsides. Secondary battery-six 3-in RF, eight 3-lb RF, two 1-lb, two 3-in F, two 30 caliber A and two 30 caliber M, with two 18-in submerged torpedo tubes |
