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The ''Katahdin'' is a historic steamboat berthed on Moosehead Lake in Greenville, Maine. Built in 1914 at the Bath Iron Works, she at first served the tourist trade on the lake before being converted to a towboat hauling lumber. She was fully restored in the 1990s by the nonprofit Moosehead Maritime Museum, and is again giving tours on the lake. One of the very few surviving early lake boats in Maine, and the oldest vessel afloat built at Bath, she was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.〔 ==Description== ''Katahdin'' is a bluff-bowed steamer, long, with a beam of and a hull depth of . Her hull is steel, with two wooden decks. Her typical draft is . Her original configuration included enclosed passenger spaces on two decks, with an open area at the stern on the lower deck, and surrounding the enclosed area on the upper deck. The pilot house is located at the front of the upper deck enclosure. The main passenger entryways are located on the lower deck on either side of the pilot house.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NRHP nomination for Katahdin (Lake Boat) )〕 ''Katahdin'' was built in 1914 at the Bath Iron Works for the Coburn Steamship Company, and is the oldest vessel afloat built at Bath.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Maine Museums Newsletter, Volume 17 #2 (May 2014) )〕 She was shipped in sections to Greenville, where final assembly took place. Her primary use when launched was to deliver tourists and supplies to the Mount Kineo Resort from Greenville Junction, but she also offered cruises on the lake.〔 The Great Depression and the increased use of the automobile for leisure transportation led to a decline in demand, and she made her last tourist trip in 1938. In 1940 she was acquired by a paper company (later itself merged into the Scott Paper Company), and converted for use as a towboat hauling timber across the lake. This conversion included the removal of the promenade areas of the decks, and the replacement of the steam plant by a diesel engine. She continued in this use until 1976.〔 Not long afterward, a local nonprofit, the Moosehead Marine Museum, was organized to preserve her. She was sufficiently restored to provide tours of the lake, and again began serving the tourist trade. After a major fundraising effort begun in 1993, she was fully restored, including a replating of her hull by the Bath Iron Works. The upper deck is now fiberglass, and the promenades have been restored. In 2012 her keel was replaced.〔 ''Katahdin'' now offers cruises between June and October, traveling either 12 or 20 miles up the lake, in cruises with durations of 3 and 4 1/2 hours. She is also available for hire for private events. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Katahdin (Lake Boat)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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