USS Wyandotte (1853)

History
United States
Name	Western Port / Wyandotte
Namesake	Western Port was her previous name retained Wyandotte was for Wyandotte, Michigan
Launched	1853
Acquired	1858
Commissioned	27 October 1858
Decommissioned	28 May 1859
Renamed	USS Wyandotte
Recommissioned	19 September 1859
Decommissioned	3 June 1865
Fate	Sold 12 July 1865 Wrecked 26 January 1866 while in merchant service
General characteristics
Displacement	464 tons
Propulsion	Steam engine; one screw
Speed	7 knots
Armament	four 32-pounder (14.5-kg) guns one 24-pounder (10.9-kg) Dahlgren howitzer

USS Wyandotte, originally USS Western Port, was a steamer acquired by the Navy as a gunboat for the Paraguay expedition in 1858. When the crisis of the American Civil War occurred, she operated in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.