Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine (Havana) Circle in New York City; Key West; Arlington National Cemetery; and Annapolis. (See USS "Maine": Memorials) Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine (Havana) The Monument to the Victims of the USS "Maine" (Spanish: "Monumento a las víctimas del Maine") was built in 1925 in on the Malecón boulevard at the end of Línea street, in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba, built in honor of the American sailors that died in the explosion of in 1898, which served as the pretext for the United States to declare war on Spain thus starting the Spanish–American War. The ship had
French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc (1899) commanded by François Darlan. After returning to France that year, the ship was replaced by the newer armoured cruiser and reduced to reserve. She was renamed "Jeanne d'Arc II" in 1930 to free her name for a purpose-built training cruiser then under construction and was stricken from the list on 15 February 1933. The ship was condemned on 21 March and sold for scrap on 9 July 1934. French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc (1899) Jeanne d'Arc was an armoured cruiser built for the French Navy at the end of the 19th century, the sole ship of her class. Completed in 1903,