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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

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KATAHDIN 61 Katahdin on her launch day, 4 February 1893, at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. Courtesy of hazegray.org.
KATAHDIN 48 Undated photo of the Katahdin at anchor. U.S. Navy photo scanned from the book "U.S. WARSHIPS OF WORLD WAR ONE" by Paul Silverstone, courtesy of Mike Green.
KATAHDIN 81 Halftone photograph of the Katahdin , taken circa 1896-98. USNHC photo # NH 52245. Courtesy of Howard I. Chapelle, Smithsonian Institution.
KATAHDIN 62 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.
KATAHDIN 111 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.
KATAHDIN 76 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.

KATAHDIN History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Not Applicable To This Ship.


Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway Battleship Pages By Andrew Toppan.

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