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April, 1912 HE battleship Maine, which was a blown up and sunk in Havana har- bor on Feb. 15, 1898, with a loss of 260 lives, and which was lately floated at an expense of $900,000 to the American government, was towed out to sea on March 16, and "buried" with impressive ceremonies in 600 fathoms of water four miles from the coast of Cuba. Sailors from the cruisers North Caro- lina and Binghamton opened her sea- cocks and 100,000 persons on the water- front saw her take her final plunge. Millions of flowers with which she had . been adorned floated on the surface as she went down. The bodies of her vic- tims were put aboard the North Caro- lina and taken to Arlington for burial. So careful, was the search for the bod- ies conducted, that everyone aboard the THE MARINE REVIEW aa BURIAL AT SUNSET Photograph Underwood & Underwood, New York. Maine at the time of the explosion has . now been accotnted for. The design adopted for raising the Maine was that of a dam elliptical in shape composed of cylinders 50 ft. in diameter, built of interlocking steel sheet piles, driven to-a depth of 73 it with the cylinders placed -tangent to each other, connected on the outer peri- meters by. short. arcs of similar sheet piles, and with the cylinders and con- necting sections filled with stiff clay from the harbor bottom near by and rock. Contract was entered into on Oct. 27, 1910, with the Lackawanna Steel Co., of Buffalo, for the sheet piling, and the first piles were delivered at the wharf at Casa Blanca on Dec. 6. Driving be- gan the same day, the process being in general as follows: An ordinary round pile was first driven accurately on the axis of a cylinder. Around this was assembled the circular form, fixed hori- zontally by the center pile; and floating in the water. A bottom piece of steel piling 50 ft. long was then placed against the form and allowed to pene- trate into the mud by its weight. The top was usually about 4 ft. above the water surface. A bottom piece of 40- ft. length was then strung through the interlock of the first piece set and sus- pended on that piece until its 35-ft. top could be placed and bolted fast, when it was allowed to penetrate as far as its weight would admit. This was con- tinued with bottoms of 50-ft. and 40-ft. length alternately. After a number of piles had been set the driving was be- THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AT HAVANA WATCHING THE BURIAL PROCESSION ON THE Way Out To Sea. THe Tucs Are PusHING AND TOWING THE HULK oF THE MAINE Photograph Underwood & Underwood, New York.