USS Wyandank

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The war in Virginia ; The U.S. steamer Wyandank, dismounting and removing guns from the Rebel batteries at Cockpit Point, on the Potomac River, March 11 - LCCN00652805 (cropped).jpg
The war in Virginia; The U.S. steamer Wyandank, dismounting and removing guns from the Rebel batteries at Cockpit Point, on the Potomac River, March 11, 1862
History
US Naval Jack 36 stars.svg US flag 34 stars.svgUnited States
Launched1847
Acquired12 September 1861
In service1861
FateBroken up, 1879
General characteristics
Displacement400 tons
Length132 ft 5 in (40.36 m)
Beam31 ft 5 in (9.58 m)
Depth of hold10 ft 10 in (3.30 m)
Propulsion
  • steam engine
  • side wheel-propelled
Armamenttwo 12-pounder guns

USS Wyandank was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a storeship and as a barracks ship in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.

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Service history

Wyandank—a wooden-hulled, sidewheel ferryboat built at New York City in 1847 and sometimes documented as Wyandanck—was acquired by the Union Navy on 12 September 1861 from the Union Ferry Co. of Brooklyn, New York. Wyandank was used during the Civil War as storeship for the Potomac Flotilla. After hostilities ended, Wyandank served at Annapolis, Maryland, into the 1870s as a floating barracks for United States Marines assigned to the United States Naval Academy. She was broken up there in 1879.

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References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here.