From the September 21, 2012, Shorpy "Heavy Metal: 1908."
Philadelphia, curca 1908. "Ships at League Island Navy Yard. Cruisers Minneapolis and Columbia and armored ram Katahdin.
One comment quoted the Annual Report of the Navy Department for Fiscal Year 1907 saying that the Katahdin was considered to be of no military value and requested that it be sold. Its value will continue to decrease and it was last commissioned for service in 1898 for the Spanish-American War. So far, $54,067.77 had spent on construction and repairs on it.
--Cooter
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