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Yantic (IX-32)
ex-Gunboat Yantic

Yantic served both the U. S. Navy and the Michigan Naval Militia.

Nipsic Class Gunboat:

Built in 1864 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Withdrawn from the sale list 31 December 1919 and reinstated on the Navy list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.

1921 - 900 t.

Length 179'

Beam 30'

Draft 13' 9"

1921 - 12' 2"

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

1921 - Four 3-pounders

Propulsion: One single-ended and one auxiliary boiler, one 310ihp Compound steam engine, one shaft.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Yantic
	110k	U.S. Navy photo from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships	Naval Historical Center
	82k	c. May 1889 Showing damage incured after cyclone Detroit Photographic Co. photo 020119 from the Libray of Congress (LC-D4-20119)	Mike Green
	55k	Photo by Frederickson	Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
	281k	Postcard published by the Detroit News Company, Detroit, Michigan	Tommy Trampp
	83k	.	Tommy Trampp
	92k	c. 1912 Harbor Springs, MI Photo courtesy of Institute for Great Lakes Research, Bowling Green State University	Ann Merriman, Ph.D.
	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
USS Yantic (IX 32)
	98k	Tied up pierside, at Hancock, Michigan, with full rigging, just before one of her annual two-week cruises. Photo taken before Yantic was overhauled and the ship's third mast was removed Photo courtesy of Michigan Technology University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Houghton, Michigan	Robert Hurst
	96k	Steaming up Portage Lake with Hancock, Michigan, to the right Photo courtesy of Michigan Technology University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Houghton, Michigan
	69k	On maneuvers along Portage Lake near the ship's home base of Hancock, Michigan. Men were trained in handling not only the Yantic, but also a number of smaller launches, cutters and dinghies carried along with the larger ship. The shaft houses of the Quincy Mining Company along Quincy hill are in the background. Photo courtesy of Michigan Technology University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Houghton, Michigan
	85k	Tied up along the Ripley shoreline near Hancock, Michigan. The Quincy Mining Company smelting works is in the background Photo courtesy of Michigan Technology University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Houghton, Michigan
	103k	At dock in the foreground, with the central business district of Houghton, Michigan, on the far side of Portage Lake. Yantic's complement of smaller training boats are stored dockside for the ship's winter season. The wooden swing bridge on the left, connected Houghton with Hancock Photo courtesy of Michigan Technology University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Houghton, Michigan
	65k	From the Fredrick Wood Collection in the April 1930 edition of Our Navy magazine Photo courtesy of C. C. Hanks	Stan Svec

Commanding Officers
01	LCDR Thomas C. Harris, USN	12 August 1864 - 16 November 1866
03	CDR Trevett Abbott, USN	12 December 1867 - 11 January 1868
05	CDR John Irwin, USN	October 1869 - 22 November 1869
07	CDR Byron Wilson, USN	13 August 1872
09	CDR Edwin Tully Woodward, USN	2 October 1880
10	CDR Francis M. Green, USN	March 1882
11	CDR Frank Wildes, USN - Retired as Rear Admiral	June 1883
15	CDR Charles H. Rockwell, USN	20 February 1889
16	LCDR Samuel Belden, USN	31 August 1891
17	LCDR Henry Ware Lyon, USN - Retired as Rear Admiral	1892 - 1893
18	LCDR Seth Mitchell Ackley, USN	13 December 1893


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Yantic (IX-32)ex-Gunboat Yantic

Yantic (IX-32)
ex-Gunboat Yantic