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In 1870, it had been at the desolate Midway Island helping to deepen the harbor channel for possible use as a coaling station, according to an account by the ship’s paymaster, George H. Read.

In the late 1800s the fort was refurbished as a coaling station for the US Navy, and it was from here that the USS Maine made its fateful journey to Havana in January 1898.

It is run by a military joint task force that is considered a tenant on the Navy base, which the United States opened in 1903 as a coaling station.

I would hate to be called a coaling station if I were Port Said, even by me.

I strongly advised that we take as little as possible—nothing more than a naval and coaling station; otherwise to appropriate the Philippines would in the long run entail endless obligations without commensurate benefits.