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Photo # NH 58950:  USS Wyandotte at the Boston Navy Yard, 1898

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USS Wyandotte (1866-1899).
Formerly named Tippecanoe and Vesuvius

USS Wyandotte, a 2100-ton Canonicus class monitor, was built at Cincinnati, Ohio, under the name Tippecanoe. Completed in 1866, she was laid up successively at New Orleans, Key West, and Philadelphia, seeing no active service for a decade. Twice renamed in 1869, first Vesuvius and then Wyandotte, she was finally commissioned in January 1876 and spent the next three years with the North Atlantic Squadron. The monitor was later station ship at Washington, D.C. and during the 1890s was Naval Militia training ship for the State of Connecticut. Recommissioned for Spanish-American War coast defense between late April and September 1898, she was mainly stationed in the Boston area. USS Wyandotte was sold for scrapping in January 1899.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Wyandotte, which was originally named Tippecanoe.


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Photo #: NH 1738

USS Tippecanoe
(1866-1899)

Civil War era lithograph, depicting the ship as originally constructed. She was renamed Wyandotte in 1869 and saw all of her active service under that name.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 48KB; 740 x 430 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 45229

USS Wyandotte
(1866-1899)

At the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, circa June-July 1898, with her crew paraded on deck.
Note the ferry boat in the center background.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 58950

USS Wyandotte
(1866-1899)

At the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, circa June-July 1898, with her crew paraded on deck.
Note the ferry boat and shiphouse in the background.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 555 pixels

 


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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Page made 13 October 1998
New images added and text revised 31 December 2001