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There's a story out there that the USS Maine was always considered unlucky.

The American armored cruiser first had her keel laid in the New York Naval Yard on October 17, 1888.

At the time, she was meant to represent America's growing naval ambitions, a modern first-rate ship for a force that was eager to be perceived as a modern first-rate navy.

But the construction of the main was beset by delays and calamities.

A fire in the shipbuilding yard's drafting room destroyed the original blueprints for the vessel,

which then had to be painstakingly redrafted by the naval architects.

Even after the ship was floated in 1890, the Navy was forced to wait a solid three years before the nickel-steel

steel plates needed for the main's armor were delivered. This was exasperated by one of the

most bitterly fought labor disputes in American history. The so-called homestead strikes and industrial

lockouts from 1889 to 1892 saw unionized steelworkers in Pittsburgh violently clash with company-hired mercenary strike breakers.

Sixteen people were dead before the steel nickel plants were once again operational.

The result was that the main would not be commissioned until 1895, and by that time, naval technology had progressed at such a pace that the

armored cruiser was already considered out of date. Then came a run of bad luck at sea. Within her first six months of service, the ship

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