The Spanish would rather see Cuba sunk than sold to the U.S.
The Maine sunk before the Spanish-American War.
spanish american war
Spain, when the US battleship Maine sank in Havana harbor. It was believed that the Spanish had sunk the American battleship with a command-detonated mine, but after the war it was discovered that the Maine was sunk by an internal explosion.
the USS Oklahoma have been rebuild, but the military sold it for scrap and it sunk during transport.
Battleship USS Nevada was sunk twice; at Pearl Harbor she grounded herself, so she wouldn't sink in the channel, thus blocking it. After WW2, she was sunk as a gunnery target in the Pacific. Battleship USS Oklahoma was sunk at Pearl Harbor; sold for re-cycling (scrap), she sunk while under tow to California, half way out from Hawaii.
Any of their former New World colonies.
Spanish Galleons were sunk.
the ships got sunk
santiago harbor
The Maine sunk before the Spanish-American War.
spanish american war
Sunk. In hurricane of 1715
The USS Maine.
Spain, when the US battleship Maine sank in Havana harbor. It was believed that the Spanish had sunk the American battleship with a command-detonated mine, but after the war it was discovered that the Maine was sunk by an internal explosion.
It was the USS Maine, and it was probably not a mine.
I wonder if you refer to the Lusitania which was sunk by German submarine U-20 on May 7th, 1915. Some 1198 passengers were killed, many of them Americans. Hwever the sinking occurred off the south coast of Ireland rather than the coast of Spain.
Captain Charles Sigsbee was commanding when she was sunk.