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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bradley Trotter, post: 4918513, member: 101226&quot;]It would&#039;ve been nice to have seen any of these engravings applied to a piece of paper money. Anyway, I could not help but notice that all these ships currently lay at the bottom of the ocean.</p><p><br /></p><p>After being raised from the bottom of Havana harbor, the USS Maine was scuttled in deep water in the Florida Straits. The remains of the Maine were discovered about 20 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>The USS San Diego was sunk by a German mine off the coast of Long Island. The wreck remains an extremely popular fishing and dive site due to the shallow nature of the wreck.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://news.usni.org/2018/12/11/investigation-confirms-wwi-cruiser-uss-san-diego-sunk-u-boat-mine" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://news.usni.org/2018/12/11/investigation-confirms-wwi-cruiser-uss-san-diego-sunk-u-boat-mine" rel="nofollow">https://news.usni.org/2018/12/11/investigation-confirms-wwi-cruiser-uss-san-diego-sunk-u-boat-mine</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The USS Massachusetts was scuttled in 1923 off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, in shallow water. The remains of the Massachusetts were declared a Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve and were later added to the National Register of Historic Places. Below is an aerial photo of what remains of the Massachusetts.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1185258[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The USS Virginia, along with its sister ship the New Jersey, were both scuttled off the coast of North Carolina by aerial bombing runs in compliance with the Washington Naval Treaty. Both ships lay inverted on the seabed accessible only to divers with highly specialized training.</p><p><br /></p><p>The USS New York survived both atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. The U.S. Navy later scuttled her in 1948 as a target.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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