&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:USS_Katahdin_(1861).jpg) Contemporary sketch of USS Katahdin operating on the Mississippi River
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| History | |
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| Launched | 12 October 1861 at Bath, Maine |
| Commissioned | 17 February 1862 at the Boston Navy Yard |
| Decommissioned | 14 July 1865 at New York City |
| Fate | sold, 30 November 1865 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Unadilla-class gunboat |
| Displacement | 691 tons |
| Tons burthen | 507 |
| Length | 158 ft (48 m) (waterline) |
| Beam | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) (max.) |
| Depth of hold | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 × 200 IHP 30-in bore by 18 in stroke horizontal back-acting engines; single screw |
| Sail plan | Two-masted schooner |
| Speed | 10 kn (11.5 mph) |
| Complement | 114 |
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USS Katahdin was a Unadilla-class gunboat built for the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War.
Katahdin was outfitted as a gunboat with cannon and rifled gun for blockade duty and two howitzers for shore bombardment.