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Yantic (IX-32)
ex-Gunboat

Yantic served both the U. S. Navy and the Michigan Naval Militia.
Nipsic Class Gunboat: Built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard; Launched, 19 March 1864; Commissioned USS Yantic 12 August 1864; Decommissioned in 1898 and loaned to the Naval Militia of the state of Michigan as a training ship; Returned custody to the Navy and recommissioned in 1917; Decommissioned and struck from the Navy list 24 July 1919 and ordered sold; Withdrawn from the sale list 31 December 1919 and reinstated on the Navy list; Recommissioned and reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary, IX-32, 16 May 1921; Decommissioned, 30 June 1926 and again loaned to the state of Michigan; Decommissioned 22 October 1929 as part of the Naval Reserve; Sunk, 22 November 1929 at a pier in Detroit, MI; Decommissioned, 30 June 1926; Struck from the Navy list 9 May 1930; Dismantled in 1936 at Detroit, MI.

Specifications: Displacement 836 t.; Length 179'; Beam 30' ; Draft 13' 9"; Speed 9.5 kts; ; Complement 154; Armament one 100-pounder Parrott Rifle, one 30-pounder Parrott Rifle, two 9" Dahlgren smooth bores, two 24-pounder Howitzers, and two 12-pounders.

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USS Yantic
Yantic 65k Photo probably taken whilst serving with the Michigan State Naval Militia.
Photo from the 1914 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships		 Original photo: Gunter Krebs
Replacement photo: Robert Hurst
Yantic 110k U.S. Navy photo from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Naval Historical Center
Yantic 55k Photo by Frederickson Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
USS Yantic (IX 32)
Yantic 65k From the Fredrick Wood Collection in the April 1930 edition of Our Navy magazine
Photo courtesy of C. C. Hanks		 Stan Svec
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