USS Katahdin
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Two vessels of the United States Navy have been named USS Katahdin, after Mount Katahdin in Maine.

• The first Katahdin was a screw gunboat commissioned in early 1862, active throughout the American Civil War, and decommissioned shortly after war's end.

• The second Katahdin was an innovative ironclad ram in service from 1897 to 1909.

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