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Yantic (Gunboat)
IX-32


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to the Navy and recommissioned, 1917; Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 24 July 1919 and ordered sold; Withdrawn from the sale list, 31 December 1919 and reinstated on the Naval Register; Recommissioned and reclassified as Miscellaneous Unclassified IX 32, 16 May 1921;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

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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Yantic 74k - Gunter Krebs
Yantic 132k From the Fredrick Wood Collection
Our Navy magazine, c. April 1930
Photo courtesy of C. C. Hanks
Stan Svec

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