Front:
Anchor of the Ill-Fated Battleship "Maine".
Erected as a Monument over the Graves of the Malne Victims.
ARLINGTON
NATIONAL
CEMETERY.
Back:
"Arlington-U.S.Greatest
National Cemetery."
Raphae! Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series Nº 2330,
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN.
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ANCHOR OF THE ILL-FATED BATTLESHIP
"MAINE".
A significant memorial at Arlington Cemetery
is the auchor of the United States Battleship which was blown
up in Havana harbor in February 1898. Under this anchor
repose the remains of 163 men of the "Maine's'' crew, brought
from Havana, Cuba, and reinterred at Arlington in December
1898.
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