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Naval engagement off Cárdenas — USS Winslow disabled

On May 11, 1898, U.S. Navy gunboats engaging Spanish forces off Cárdenas, Cuba, came under heavy fire, and the torpedo boat USS Winslow was badly damaged with American casualties.

Naval engagement off Cárdenas — USS Winslow disabled

The clash was an early U.S. naval setback in the Caribbean theater that exposed the dangers of close coastal operations and heightened public attention to naval losses in the Spanish–American War.

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