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...officially on account of the Maine, that hostilities were commenced. Captain Sigsbee then and afterward believed that the explosion of the magazines was brought about by a mine. When the Maine was raised in 1911, it was definitely established that the explosion of the magazines had sunk the ship, but the greater explosion had completely removed all possible traces of the lesser explosion, if any, which ignited the magazines. Responsibility for the disaster can never be fixed, but it is now generally agreed that the Spanish Government itself was not responsible for the sinking, although certain subordinates may have been...
...taught at Annapolis, invented instruments for deep sea sounding, drew cartoons for the Daily Graphic of New York. At one time, in command of the Blake, he made a considerable stir. The vessel was anchored off a reef when a severe storm broke. The anchors gave way and the ship drifted toward the reef. Faced with the loss of the ship, he deliberately scuttled her. Instead of pounding to pieces on the reef, she sank on a sandy bottom and was later raised and put in service...
...evening, ignorant of this event, Captain Sigsbee retired to his cabin about eight o'clock to write a letter to his wife. Most of the crew of 328 and the 36 officers were already asleep. He finished his letter and was sealing it when a great explosion shook the ship and she immediately began to list. The Captain rushed to the deck and amid the confusion issued orders to post sentries to repel boarders. There were no boarders, but the forward magazines had exploded and the Maine quickly sank in the waters of the harbor, carrying with...
Next day longshoremen held a meeting and went out on strike as a protest. On the second day of the strike ship owners declared that only 200 men were out, the strike a fizzle...
William McFee, novelist: "The Cunard-Anchor steamship Tuscania, which has just sailed for the Mediterranean, is the only trans-Atlantic liner with a bookshop aboard. Captain David W. Bone, who wrote The Brass-bounder, and other books, commands this ship, and I, who wrote Command, Casuals of the Sea, and so on, am proprietor of her unique 'traveling Parnassus...