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Texas (unnumbered), renamed the San Marcos. Port bow, underway, ca. 1900.

View of San Marcos (Texas), circa 1911, showing the results of target practice, on the deck, most likely from the Kansas, BB 21. The officers and crew are also most probably from the Kansas.

Original photograph of "Assembling the Fleet at Key West -- Sunday Service on the Battleship Texas." Ship in the left background is USS New York.

Texas ready for post-war drydocking, at the New York Navy Yard, August 3, 1898

Crewmen pose in front of the battleship's port side (forward) 12"/35 gun, 1898. This view looks aft, with boat stowage and a winch at the left. Original photograph was printed on a stereograph card by Strohmeyer & Wyman, New York, 1898.

USS Texas (1895-1911) Photographed in 1898, probably upon her return to U.S. waters from Spanish-American War service.

"Assembling the Fleet at Key West -- Sunday Service on the Battleship Texas." Colored print after a painting by Howard Chandler Christy, March 1898, copyright 1898 by P.F. Collier. Ship in the left background is USS New York.

Crewmen pose with mascot dog and cat at the muzzle of one of the ship's 12"/35 guns. The original photograph was copyrighted in 1900 by R.Y. Young, and published as a lightly color-tinted semi- transparency stereograph card by the American Stereoscop

Taking on coal from a lighter, 1898.The original photograph was copyright 1898 by B.L. Singley, and published on a stereograph card by the Keystone View Company.

San Marcos (Texas), circa 1911, after being used as a target ship.

View of San Marcos (Texas), circa 1911, showing the results of target practice, most likely from the Kansas, BB 21. The officers and crew are also most probably from the Kansas

Maine (formerly Armored Cruiser 1). Starboard side, entering Havana Harbor, Jan. 25, 1898. She would blow up and sink three weeks after this picture was taken.

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The wreck of the Maine in Havana Harbor, June 16, 1911.

U.S. Navy diving crew at work on the ship's wreck, in 1898, seen from aft looking forward

This is an original Remember the Maine Button with pin. These were made by J. Floersheim, Kunstadter & Co., Jackson & Market St's., Chicago, IL. This one was dated July 21, 1898.

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At 5:21 p.m. on March 16, 1912, U.S.S. Maine was sunk in 600 fathoms in the Atlantic.

Launching, at the New York Navy Yard, 18 November 1889. Engraving copied from Scientific American magazine, Vol. 45, 1898.

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The Maine is destroyed by explosion, in Havana Harbor, Cuba, 15 February 1898. Artwork, copied from the contemporary publication Uncle Sam's Navy.

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Maine in Havana Harbor, Cuba, shortly before the explosion that would sink her.