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On the brink of war with Spain after the U.S.S. "Maine" battleship was sunk in Havana Harbor, Cuba, in February 1898, the U.S. Army installed a minefield at the entrance to Pensacola Harbor. Leaving a 1000-foot opening, the Corps of Engineers placed two booms across the channel from Santa Rosa Island and Period Key. Buoyant and underwater mines were laid behind the booms, and a searchlight swept the minefield. The system remained in force until a major hurricane damaged facilities in 1926, and the U.S. Navy took over Pensacola's underwater defenses.
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