USS Katahdin
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Two vessels of the United States Navy have been named USS Katahdin, after Mount Katahdin
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, was a screw gunboat commissioned in early 1862, active throughout the American Civil War, and decommissioned shortly after war's end
, was an ironclad ram in service from 1897 to 1909
Mount Katahdin
Mount Katahdin is the highest mountain in Maine at . Named Katahdin by the Penobscot Indians, the term means "The Greatest Mountain". Katahdin is the centerpiece of Baxter State Park: a steep, tall mountain formed from underground magma. The flora and fauna on the mountain are typical of those...
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, was a screw gunboat commissioned in early 1862, active throughout the American Civil War, and decommissioned shortly after war's end
, was an ironclad ram in service from 1897 to 1909