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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:USS_Wanderer_(1857).jpg) USS Wanderer in U.S. Navy service during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
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| Name | USS Wanderer |
| Namesake | Previous name retained |
| Launched | 1857 |
| Acquired | May 1861 |
| Commissioned | ca. May 1863 |
| In service | May or June 1861 – July 1863 and spring 1864 – June 1865 |
| Out of service | July 1863-spring 1864 |
| Stricken | 1865 |
| Fate | Sold 28 June 1865 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 300 tons |
| Length | 106 ft 0 in (32.31 m) |
| Beam | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Schooner-rigged |
| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement | not known |
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The first USS Wanderer was a high-speed schooner originally built for pleasure. It was used in 1858 to illegally import slaves from Africa. It was seized for service with the United States Navy during the American Civil War. In U.S. Navy service from 1861 to 1865, and under outright U.S. Navy ownership from 1863 to 1865, she was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat, as a tender, and as a hospital ship. She was decommissioned, put into merchant use, and lost off Cuba in 1871.