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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
, about 200 miles northeast from Bluefield, Nicaragua......Feb. 2, 1894 United States battle-ship Maine blown up in Havana Harbor, Cuba......Feb. 15, 1898 United States torpedo-boat Winslow disabled by shore batteries off Cardenas, Cuba; rescued by other vessels......May 11, 1898 United States blockading fleet destroys Spanish fleet off Santiago, Cuba......July 3, 1898 Spanish battle-ship Maria Teresa, sunk in battle off Santiago and afterwards raised, abandoned in a gale off San Salvador while en route to New York......Nov. 1, 1898 Steamers Portland and Pentagoet lost with all on board (about 180), and nearly 200 other vessels wrecked (loss of life about 200), in great storm on North Atlantic coast......Nov. 26-27, 1898 Steam ferry-boat Chicago sunk in collision with steamer City of Augusta in New York Harbor......Oct. 31, 1899 British steamer Ariosto wrecked near Cape Hatteras, N. C., twenty-one drowned......Dec. 24, 1899 Pacific Ocean, etc. Independence w