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The USS Michigan's name was changed to USS Wolverine in 1905 so that the battleship USS Michigan could be commissioned.
James Jesse Strang led a dissident group of Mormons on Beaver Island.
Before the Civil War, the Michigan only carried only one cannon because of an agreement with Canada. During the war, she was armed with 13 more cannons.
For the century anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie, the Wolverine towed the original USS Niagara to various ports in the celebration.
In 1927, the Wolverine was pushed onto a sandbank in Presque Isle Bay and loaned to the city of Erie as a relic. It was sold to the Foundation for the Preservation of the Original Michigan, Inc, in 1948, but fund raising efforts failed and it was cut up for scrap in 1949.
In 1950, her prow was placed as a monument in Wolverine Park near where she was built. In 1980, it was restored and moved to the Erie Maritime Museum where it can still be seen.
An Interesting History and Too Bad Something That Survived That Long Could Not Have Been Saved. --Old Blockade-R.
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