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| Keywords: Almirante Oquendo wreck Cuba 1899.jpg The Spanish cruiser Almirante Oquendo as she lies wrecked on the southern coast of Cuba Meadville circa 1899 She took part in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba fought between Spain and the United States on 3 July 1898 Almirante Oquendo was hit repeatedly by the USS Iowa and driven out of the battle by the premature detonation of a shell stuck in a defective breech-block mechanism of an 280 mm turret A boiler explosion finished her and she was ordered scuttled and burned by her mortally wounded Captain Lazaga LOC-image cph 3c04762 ~ 1899 Keystone View Company manufacturers and publishers frame removed PD-USGov Almirante Oquendo ship 1893 Shipwrecks in the Caribbean | ||||
