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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 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.

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