2020年8月2日 · The problem of supplying the best defense of the approaches to an important seacoast city against an enemy's vessels, and particularly those of the type of the modern ironclad ships belonging to the great nations of the old world, has been solved by Admiral Daniel Ammen, of the United States Navy, in the production of the Marine Ram, with which ...

The Katahdin was known as the "Ammen ram ship," after her designer, and she was "based upon the personal experience of the admiral in the use of and the defense against rams in our civil war."

Interoceanic Canal Congress in Paris, 1879; designed the Ammen ram, a small coast-defense vessel, one of which, the Katahdin, was built and accepted for service; wrote several books, including The Old Navy and the New (1891); died at

The collection contains correspondence, papers, documents, photographs, dueling pistols, and blueprints concerning Admiral Ammen's career in the U.S. Navy, his activities as Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission (1872-1876), as representative from the U.S. to the Interoceanic Canal Congress at Paris in 1879, and his various efforts in ...

United States Ammen Ram Katahdin in Action. Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from The National Tribune. (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 27 July 1893, Image 8, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. The Katahdin, designed to sink any battleship, is a veriable Nautilus. She can strike a blow and not feel it.

The collection contains correspondence, papers, documents, photographs, dueling pistols, and blueprints concerning Admiral Ammen's career in the U.S. Navy, his activities as Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission (1872-1876), as representative from the U.S. to the Interoceanic Canal Congress at Paris in 1879, and his various efforts in ...

THE AMMEN RAM, KATAHDIN. is an article from American Advocate of Peace (1892-1893), Volume 55. View more articles from American Advocate of Peace...

The Bath Iron Works of Bath, Me., will endeavor to launch the new Ammen barbor-defence ram on Feb. 1. The ram is now well along toward completion, and might have been launched as early as...

ALICE MAY DOUGLAS, THE AMMEN RAM, "KATAHDIN.", American Advocate of Peace (1892-1893), Vol. 55, No. 3 (MARCH, 1893), pp. 55-56

THE HARBOR DEFENSE RAM. The accompanying illustration shows the general design of the_twin-screw armor-plate harbor defense ram--com- monly called the Ammen Ram from the fact that it was designed by Rear-Admiral Ammen-—for the construction of which bids have been asked by the Navy Department.