USS Wyandotte (1864)

Wyandotte at the Boston Navy Yard during the Spanish–American War
History
United States
Name	USS Wyandotte
Namesake	Wyandotte Indian Tribe
Ordered	15 September 1862
Builder	Miles Greenwood
Laid down	28 September 1862
Launched	22 December 1864
Completed	15 February 1866
Commissioned	24 January 1876
Decommissioned	20 September 1898
Renamed	USS Vesuvius, 15 June 1869 USS Wyandotte, 10 August 1869
Refit	1873–74
Fate	Sold for scrap, 17 January 1899
General characteristics
Class and type	Canonicus-class monitor
Displacement	2,100 long tons (2,100 t)
Tons burthen	1,034 tons (bm)
Length	224 ft 6 in (68.4 m)
Beam	43 ft 5 in (13.2 m)
Draft	13 ft 3 in (4.0 m)
Installed power	320 ihp (240 kW) 2 × Stimers fire-tube boilers
Propulsion	1 × Propeller 1 × Vibrating-lever steam engine
Speed	8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement	100 officers and enlisted men
Armament	2 × 15-inch (381 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns
Armor	Gun turret: 10 in (254 mm) Waterline belt: 5 in (127 mm) Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm) Pilot house: 10 in (254 mm)

Originally named USS Tippecanoe, after the river in Indiana,^[1] USS Wyandotte was a single-turreted Canonicus-class monitor built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Completed after the end of the war, Wyandotte was laid up until 1876, although she received her new name in 1869. The ship was commissioned in 1876 and assigned to the North Atlantic Squadron for the next three years. She became a receiving ship in 1879 until she was placed in reserve again in 1885. Wyandotte was on militia duty when the Spanish–American War began and she was recommissioned in 1898 to defend Boston, Massachusetts from any Spanish raiders. The ship was decommissioned after the end of the war and sold for scrap in 1899.