✅ SOLVED Ship on a pendant.....era ?

[villagenut]

Dug this pendant today and thought I had a token or a civil war ID as the back looked as if it had engraving.....but not so once I got it home.It does look like it was holed after it was made. Any ideas of what era this ship would have been from? Thanks vn

 

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[Retired Sarge]

The profile of the ship looks similar to those during the Spanish-American War (21 Apr 1898 – 13 Aug 1898). Here's a picture of the U.S.S. Brooklyn, notice the similarities. She was designated an amored cruiser and built between 1893-1896. While I can't put a for certain date on the item, the ships served from the 1890s on up into the 1920s).

 

[villagenut]

That does narrow it down, I see a few examples of this pendant on eBay and piclick but no real info there. Thanks ffuries.

 

[invent4hir]

Dug this pendant today and thought I had a token or a civil war ID as the back looked as if it had engraving.....but not so once I got it home.It does look like it was holed after it was made. Any ideas of what era this ship would have been from? Thanks vn
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VN, really nice shape and detail!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your pendant, which shows a ship, is definitely not from the civil war. Your pendant's ship is a slightly incorrect representation of the US Navy battleship USS Maine... which blew up and sank in the harbor at Havana Cuba on February 15th 1898, prompting the Spanish-American War a bit later that year. The US battle-cry in that war was "Remember the Maine!" Your pendant is a patriotic memento of that time.
https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/...s-battleship-maine-explodes-in-havana-harbor/

Your pendant's rendition of the USS Maine is incorrect because the Maine had only two smokestacks, not three as seen on your pendant.

 

[Retired Sarge]

Your pendant, which shows a ship, is definitely not from the civil war. Your pendant's ship is a slightly incorrect representation of the US Navy battleship USS Maine... which blew up and sank in the harbor at Havana Cuba on February 15th 1898, prompting the Spanish-American War a bit later that year. The US battle-cry in that war was "Remember the Maine!" Your pendant is a patriotic memento of that time.
https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/...s-battleship-maine-explodes-in-havana-harbor/

Your pendant's rendition of the USS Maine is incorrect because the Maine had only two smokestacks, not three as seen on your pendant.

Correct the original USS Maine had 2 stacks, the second USS Maine had 3 stacks. Reason why I didn't suggest the Maine, although the thought did cross my mind.

 

[villagenut]

Thanks for all the great info, I knew it wasn't a CW ship after a close look at home but it did have me excited in the field. I will mark this one solved, thank youall.

 

[Reanm8er]

I like it, I like it all!
ffuries, were the Maine and the Brooklyn in the same class or series?
TCG I have to agree with your description. The iron plating at the waterline seems flared out like the early iron clads. The poop deck is still present on the ship along with visible steel cable railing. Three stacks mean three boilers. The amount of horsepower represented by those three stacks would have propelled a ship of that length and displacement like a speed boat.
These days when a significant event takes place the T-shirts are on the street by night-fall! I think this is a like example of a hastily prepared icon to let the folks at home share in the "Remember The Maine Sentiment". Of course back then they didn't know or kept mum about the slow fire in the coal bunker next to the powder magazine!

Nice find and keep searching!

 

[Retired Sarge]

I like it, I like it all!
ffuries, were the Maine and the Brooklyn in the same class or series?
TCG I have to agree with your description. The iron plating at the waterline seems flared out like the early iron clads. The poop deck is still present on the ship along with visible steel cable railing. Three stacks mean three boilers. The amount of horsepower represented by those three stacks would have propelled a ship of that length and displacement like a speed boat.
These days when a significant event takes place the T-shirts are on the street by night-fall! I think this is a like example of a hastily prepared icon to let the folks at home share in the "Remember The Maine Sentiment". Of course back then they didn't know or kept mum about the slow fire in the coal bunker next to the powder magazine!

Nice find and keep searching!

The Maine ACR 1 was a was an Armoured Cruiser re-designated as a Second Class Battleship, the Brooklyn ACR 3 was a Armored Cruiser. See pics below of the Maine (Top) and Brooklyn (Bottom). The Maine took almost 9 years to build and was already outdated by the time she was launched. The New York ACR 2 and the Brooklyn were more advanced than she was.

So I don't think the Maine was the same class as the New York and Brooklyn. The Pennsylvania then Tennessee classes followed.

ETA: While the Brooklyn had 3 stacks, she actually had 4 engines.

 

[Kray Gelder]

Good stuff fellas, cool find!

 

[Iron Buzz]

I have a very similar medallion/charm that I decided was a "Remember the Maine" token.

Found this: https://picclick.com/Remember-the-M...-FREE-SHIPPING-113211618048.html#&gid=1&pid=2

 

[Reanm8er]

Thanks Mike!

 

[roger b]

Thanks for looking