Members of the Frank L. Mitchell VFW Post 3335 and its Ladies and Men’s Auxiliaries held a program Monday in memory of the day the USS Maine, a second-class battleship, was blown up and sunk at 9:40 p.m. Feb. 15, 1898 in Havana Harbor in Cuba. The ship, the first to be named after the State of Maine, was in Cuba to protect the interests of the United States, Palmer Hebert, District 9 commander of the Department of Maine VFW said during the program, Remember the Maine. The ship weighed 6,682 tons. The cause of the explosion that killed 266 crew members is believed to have been by a naval mine, he said. The sinking of the Maine prefaced the Spanish-American War.

Members of the Frank L. Mitchell VFW Post 3335 and its Ladies
and Men’s Auxiliaries held a program Monday in memory of the day the
USS Maine, a second-class battleship, was blown up and sunk at 9:40
p.m. Feb. 15, 1898 in Havana Harbor in Cuba. The ship, the first to be
named after the State of Maine, was in Cuba to protect the interests of
the United States, Palmer Hebert, District 9 commander of the
Department of Maine VFW said during the program, Remember the
Maine. The ship weighed 6,682 tons. The cause of the explosion that
killed 266 crew members is believed to have been by a naval mine, he
said. The sinking of the Maine prefaced the Spanish-American War.

Members of the Frank L. Mitchell VFW Post 3335 and its Ladies
and Men’s Auxiliaries held a program Monday in memory of the day the
USS Maine, a second-class battleship, was blown up and sunk at 9:40
p.m. Feb. 15, 1898 in Havana Harbor in Cuba. The ship, the first to be
named after the State of Maine, was in Cuba to protect the interests of
the United States, Palmer Hebert, District 9 commander of the
Department of Maine VFW said during the program, Remember the
Maine. The ship weighed 6,682 tons. The cause of the explosion that
killed 266 crew members is believed to have been by a naval mine, he
said. The sinking of the Maine prefaced the Spanish-American War.