The American-Spanish war; . vid F. Boyd, Jr. ; Surgeon, Lu-cien G. Heneberger ; Paymaster, Charles M. Ray; ChiefEngineer, Charles P. Howell; Passed Assistant Engineer,Frederic C. Bowers; Assistant Engineers, John R. Morrisand Darwin R. Merritt; Naval Cadets (engineer division), PopeWashington and Arthur Crenshaw ; Chaplain, John P. Chid-Uick ; First Lieutenant of Marines, Albertus W. Catlin ;Boatswain, Francis E. Larkin; Gunner, Joseph Hill; Car-penter, George Helms ; Pay-Clerk, Brent McCarthy. The Maine, from the date of her commissioning, provedherself an exceptionally efificient ship, in ca
The American-Spanish war; . vid F. Boyd, Jr. ; Surgeon, Lu-cien G. Heneberger ; Paymaster, Charles M. Ray; ChiefEngineer, Charles P. Howell; Passed Assistant Engineer,Frederic C. Bowers; Assistant Engineers, John R. Morrisand Darwin R. Merritt; Naval Cadets (engineer division), PopeWashington and Arthur Crenshaw ; Chaplain, John P. Chid-Uick ; First Lieutenant of Marines, Albertus W. Catlin ;Boatswain, Francis E. Larkin; Gunner, Joseph Hill; Car-penter, George Helms ; Pay-Clerk, Brent McCarthy. The Maine, from the date of her commissioning, provedherself an exceptionally efificient ship, in calm and in storm,and met with but few of the mishaps incident to such compli-cated structures as are battleships. She did active and al-most continuous cruising along the eastern coast of theUnited States from between the extreme limits of Bar Har-bor, Maine, in the north, to New Orleans, Louisiana, in thesouth ; at first, under the command of Captain A. S. Crown-inshield, later Chief of the Bureau of Navigation ; afterwards. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MAINE. 95 under the command of Captain Sigsbee. She participated inall the drills of the North Atlantic Squadron ; acted success-fully, under Captain Sigsbee, as the senior officers ship of thesquadron detailed by the Navy Department for the repressionof filibustering operations in the Cuban War with Spain ;and visited many of our cities on occasions of public moment. On Monday night, January 24, 1898, the Mciiiie, then withthe North Atlantic Squadron in the roads of Dry Tortugas,Florida, received orders to proceed to Havana. She imme-diately got under way and arrived at her destination the fol-lowing morning, where she was boarded by the Spanishgovernment pilot and was by him conducted to the mooringbuoy where she subsequently met her fate. Captain Sigs-bees orders from our government were simply to make afriendly visit, all the details of his action in carrying out theseorders being left to his discretion. This officer acted withmar
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