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KATAHDIN

CLASS - KATAHDIN As Built
Displacement 2155 Tons, Length, 250 ft 9 in (76 m) (Max)
Beam: 43 ft 5 in (13.2 m) Draft: 15 ft 1 in (4.6 m) Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h) Propulsion: Range: Complement: 97 officers and enlisted Armament: 4 6-pdr. rifled guns

Operational and Building Data
Laid down in Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.
Launched: 4 February 1893
Commissioned: 20 February 1896
Decommissioned: 8 October 1898
Fate: Struck: 9 July 1909

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
314k	Artist's sketch and details of the *Katahdin.*	Courtesy of maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca via commons.wikimedia.org.
424k	Artist's sketch of the *Katahdin* in action.	Courtesy of maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca via commons.wikimedia.org.
61k	*Katahdin* on her launch day, 4 February 1893, at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.	Courtesy of hazegray.org.
3.14k	TWO NEW U.S. NAVAL TERRORS THE RAM *KATAHDIN* LAUNCHED, And the Indiana (BB-01) Nearly Ready. Both Formidable Battleships. Description of the Vessels.	Image and text provided by University of South Carolina; Columbia, SC. Photo from The Watchman and Southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 15 February 1893, Image 3, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
136k	A line drawing of the *Katahdin*, as completed.	Photo courtesy of Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, collection of Robb Jensen.
1.48k	United States Ammen Ram Katahdin in Action.	Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from The National Tribune. (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 27 July 1893, Image 8, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
4.15k	The Katahdin, designed to sink any battleship, is a veriable Nautilus. She can strike a blow and not feel it.	Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Photo from The Morning Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 03 January 1895, Image 8, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
608k	IS A QUEER CRAFT Ammen Ram *Katahdin* The Only Vessel of Her Kind. Built for Offensive Work Only - Calculated To Do Extensive Damage	Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo from The Hawaiian Gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 10 May 1898, Image 7, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
81k	Port broadside view of the *Katahdin* between 1895 and 1901 at an unknown location.	Library of Congress photo # LC-D4-20029, courtesy of Mike Green. Photo added 09/22/11.
81k	Halftone photograph of the *Katahdin*, taken circa 1896-98.	USNHC photo # NH 52245. Courtesy of Howard I. Chapelle, Smithsonian Institution.
62k	Crewmen of the *Katahdin* standing by her forward superstructure, 1898. The original photograph, taken by J.F. Jarvis, was printed on a stereographic card. Note sheet metal ladder on the ship's "turtle back" hull side.	USNHC photo # NH 94258.Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(Ret), 1983.
76k	A decommissioned *Katahdin* sits in port, possibly at Philadelphia Navy Yard sometime after 8 October 1898.	Photo from National Archives & Record Administration (NARA), Record Group 19-N, Box 33. Courtesy of Dan Treadwell.
111k	Undated port quarter drawing of the *Katahdin* underway.	Photo from National Archives & Record Administration (NARA), Record Group 19-N, Box 33. Courtesy of Dan Treadwell.
148k	Undated photo of the *Katahdin* at anchor.	Photo courtesy of the Detroit Publishing Company via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division courtesy of Bill Gonyo.
927k	Colored print of the *Katahdin*.	Photo courtesy Darryl Baker.
1.50k	The decommissioned *Katahdin* sits moored at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1901.	Photo courtesy of the Detroit Publishing Company via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division courtesy of Bill Gonyo.
1.10k	Pictured are ships moored at League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa. circa 1907. From right to left are the decommissioned ships *Katahdin, cruiser Columbia* (C-12), & the Olympia (C-6). The *Columbia* was re-commissioned on 22 June 1915.	Photo courtesy of the Detroit Publishing Company via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division courtesy of Bill Gonyo.
1.59k	THIS IS WHAT THE RAM KATAHDIN* WAS EXPECTED TO DO.*	Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from The Washington Times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 06 January 1907, Magazine Section, Image 40, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
1.24k	The famous ram *Katahdin*, which cost the government more than a million dollars, is soon to serve as a floating target.	Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from The New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 10 October 1909, Image 19, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.

KATAHDIN History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

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