Unidentified officers sitting on the stern of the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship
BACHE in Havana Harbor on February 16, 1898. The night before
the Battleship MAINE had sunk in Havana Harbor. The BACHE was working at
the Dry Tortugas and upon word of the MAINE disaster, was sent to
Havana as a dispatch vessel and to help evacuate the injured.
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