The USS Columbia (CL12) and USS Minneapolis (CL 13) were in and out of service during their careers. The Columbia had been decommissioned since May 3, 1907 and returned to service in 1915 where it served during World War I. It was decommissioned in
June 29, 1921, and sold January 22, 1922.
There was an outhouse perched over the water on the Katahdin's starboard side for relief. Not too sanitary for the river, though.
The Katahdin was highly innovative in its time, but obsolescent when it was designed after being copied after British 1870s-1880s harbor rams. She was underpowered and unseaworthy.
It was obsolete when it was launched in 1896 and decommissioned October 1898 after the Spanish-American War. In 1909 it was struck from the Navy register and designated a target vessel and sunk off Rappahannock Spit, Virginia, in the autumn of 1909.
--Don't Katahdin Me. --DaCoot
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